Re: [css-inline] Summary of drop-caps/initial-letters discussion from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2014-06-03 (www-style@w3.org from June 2014)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 15:15:10 -0700
To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDYiXW-F7zDt1if8_YYWwFt8eDhVoaWxWzdCK9dTW615g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
> I have noticed examples in English where if the first word is only two
> letters long that both letters are dropped.  Is allowing this feasible?
> (Maybe not for the current level of the spec.)

So far, our conclusion on all "in this circumstance you want to
drop-initial X" cases is "use markup to achieve that".

~TJ

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