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

> That example looks like a 3-line initial letter H (with, um, suboptimal
> alignment), followed by a capital E.

I can well see someone wishing to give the flavour of journeyman 
letterpress printing, in which case 'suboptimal alignment' may actually 
be desired. I imagine few printers had founts that exactly spanned the 
height of two-lines-of-text-plus-one-thickness-of-leading.

-- 
Charles Lamont