- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 00:16:25 -0400
- To: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>
- Cc: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 6 October 2010 00:07, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com> wrote: > Simon, > You raise a good question. It is clear to me that the intent of "first-letter" is to include punctuation that precedes the first "real" letter. But, your case has introduced a space before the first "real" letter. This particular example does not seem to have a use case associated with it. Why would anyone put a space in a "first-letter" situation without the intent that the space terminate the "first-letter" handling. For that reason, I would say that Opera has the correct answer. But, if someone can provide a use case for your example, I would consider it. I suppose a trivial typographically valid use case would be an opening quotation mark in French. When French guillemets are used, the opening guillemet should always be followed by a space before the real first letter appears. > Steve Zilles -- cheers, -ambrose
Received on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 04:16:53 UTC