Re: [css-inline] Summary of drop-caps/initial-letters discussion

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.


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