- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:36:51 +0100
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
> On 11 Dec 2014, at 15:59, Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
>> 5) Not completely sure what this means: "[...] and hanging-punctuation apply to the first line of text as normal in the presence of initial letters."
>>
>> Given this:
>>
>> <style>
>> p { hanging-punctuation:first; }
>> p::first-letter { initial-letter:2; }
>> </style>
>> <p>"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice [...]</p>
>>
>> Does the hanging quotation mark end up the same size as the C, or as the rest of the text?
>
> The pseudo spec [1] says that ::first-letter also selects leading
> punctuation. So the hanging punctuation would be the same size as the
> "C".
I thought so, but using the term "as normal" threw me off, making me think you were maybe referring to the effect of the normal value of the initial-letter property, meaning it would be sized with the rest of the text.
Maybe you could consider rephrasing, or adding a short note to clarify.
- Florian
Received on Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:37:15 UTC