search

w3c / i18n-activity

Home pages, charters, style-guides, and similar documents related to the W3C Internationalization Activity.
67 stars 23 forks source link

i18n-ISSUE-408: Boxed characters and initial letter properties #63

Open r12a opened 8 years ago

r12a commented 8 years ago

http://www.w3.org/Mail/flatten/index?subject=i18n-ISSUE-408&list=www-style

Raised by:Richard Ishida Opened on:2015-01-16

2.4. Alignment of Initial Letters: the initial-letter-align property http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-inline/#aligning-initial-letter

Looking at the examples at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/sets/72157650248400402/ I noted that another apparently popular approach to initial letter highlighting involves centring the text in a decorated box. Here are some examples:

Hebrew https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/15650929903/in/set-72157650248400402 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/16084956857/in/set-72157650248400402/

Chinese https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/15650930393/in/set-72157650248400402

Korean https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/16246010056/in/set-72157650248400402 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/16086075057/in/set-72157650248400402/

Devanagari https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/15652027313/in/set-72157650248400402 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/16084553210/in/set-72157650248400402/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/16084392688/in/set-72157650248400402/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/16084553630/in/set-72157650248400402/ and others

It seems logical to assume that one might use the ::first-letter plus initial-letter property to indicate the vertical height of such a box, and the general displacement relative to the first line. The current values of initial-letter-align, however, don't seem relevant - the enlarged character(s) in the above example appear to be centred vertically and horizontally within the box, and it is the box that is aligned with the rest of the text. Do we need a 5th value for the initial-letter-align property that centres the sequence of characters in a box who's size is indicated by the initial-letter property (ie. rather than aligning by baselines), and that indicates the alignment of the top and bottom of the box relative to the follow-on text?

fantasai commented 8 years ago

Added initial-letter-align: border-box. https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline/#valdef-initial-letter-align-border-box