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Ethiopic Layout Requirements
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Initial letter styling #112

Closed dyacob closed 4 years ago

dyacob commented 6 years ago

Does the browser or ereader correctly handle special styling of the initial letter of a line or paragraph, such as for drop caps or similar?

See: https://w3c.github.io/elreq/gap-analysis/#initialletter

dyacob commented 6 years ago

I don't believe I've seen this, certainly its not regular. So yes, browsers and ereaders do correctly handle initial letter styling by virtue of there being no special requirements in Ethiopic publishing to support. Thus not applicable to Ethiopic publishing practices.

dyacob commented 6 years ago

The ALReq statement on this topic could be borrowed for Ethiopic up to "Although initial letter styling is not an innate feature of the Arabic script, there have been occurrences of its usage noted. However, the specifications and guidelines for composition of these decorative elements are undefined or insubstantial."

r12a commented 4 years ago

I added a section to the document with that wording, so closing this.