Re: When is a first letter not a :first-letter?

2008/6/30 David Walbert <dwalbert@learnnc.org>:
> At the same time, I wonder about initial punctuation. If I want a drop cap
> at the top of a page, but the first sentence starts with a quotation,
> traditional practice is to remove the initial quotation mark. If I don't
> remove the punctuation the drop cap would look silly, but I leave it in and
> CSS does not consider punctuation a "first-letter", then presumably there's
> no drop cap

I distinctly remember I saw somewhere that setting the punctuation
alongside the drop cap is (no longer considered ab)normal nowadays.
But I don't remember where I saw it. Maybe I could try to locate the
reference.

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