Closed r12a closed 7 years ago
The changes based on these issues-407 have already being uploaded earlier in http://w3c.github.io/ilreq/.
Referring to section 2 is enough. Even the leftover sentences like "The orthographic syllable may be a single Consonant/Vowel or the combinations of Unicode code points." could be removed…
As the person who raised this, i think this issue is now stale and so i'm going to close it. It can be reopened if needed.
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5.1 First Letter http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-ilreq-20141216/#first-letter
"Note how the vowel sign appears to the left of the first character, not the third. There are three grapheme clusters here. The first includes the SA+VIRAMA,THA+I and T+II. We see that the styling is done on the basis of the syllable, not the first character. A syllable includes a base consonant and any combination of the following characters in the text stream:"
This text is misleading when paired with figure 4 when it talks about 3 graphemes and there are 3 red circles. It also doesn't show first letter styling, as the text says, which is confusing. There is also an error in the romanization.
How about the following wording, based around the example at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/16084553630/ I also suggest renaming the section to Initial Letter Styling, to match the CSS Inline spec
An alternative would be to take the above text and put it at the bottom of section 3 Text Segmentation, as an illustration of the point made in the last paragraph ("text segmentation should be done as Indic syllable"). This is useful because it clearly distinguishes between grapheme cluster and syllabic units, and could be referred to from other sections, too, such as the section on vertical text.
And then simply say, at the start of section 5.1 that selection of initial letters uses the orthographic syllable as the unit, as illustrated in section 2, and then simply give some examples. The majority of section 5.1 could then focus on more specific requirements, such as what styles of highlighting are common, and what the alignment points, etc, are.