- From: Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:08:48 +0100 (IST)
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: "James Clark" <jjc@jclark.com>, "fantasai" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "Dave Cramer" <dauwhe@gmail.com>
On Tue, May 20, 2014 9:01 am, Dave Cramer wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:14 PM, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote: ... >> From the few examples of Arabic I've found, it seems more common to drop >> the first word rather than the first letter. OpenOffice.org drop caps >> feature has a "whole word" option which handles this. With this >> proposal, >> the first word would have to be wrapped in an element to handle this, >> right? >> > > Correct. I wonder if there's interest in a ::first-word pseudo-element. > The > books we publish often set the first three words of each chapter in all > caps; ::first-n-word(3) would be nice ;) And for the books where only part of the first word continues in small caps? Including, but not limited to, Shakespeare: http://130.132.81.94/dl_crosscollex/brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=10000551&iid=1378064&srchtype=ITEM Regards, Tony. Tony Graham tgraham@mentea.net Consultant http://www.mentea.net Chair, Print and Page Layout Community Group @ W3C XML Guild member -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Mentea XML, XSL-FO and XSLT consulting, training and programming
Received on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 10:09:11 UTC