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[css-inline] should initial-letter-wrap have an auto value? #410
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See issue 13 in the spec. Right now we have
inital-letter-wrap (none | first | all | grid | <length> | <percentage>)
none doesn't do any wrapping, and all wraps every line to be close to the shape of the initial letter. first just wraps the first line, but acts like none if there's a space after the initial letter. This is because you don't want to close up the word space if the para starts like "A screaming comes across the sky."
Should we rename first to auto, and add a first that always applies, whether or not there is a space after the initial letter? I don't immediately see a typographic situation where this would be useful.
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frivoal commentedon Aug 23, 2016
Unless we expect to get a value that can switch automagically between
allandnone(and maybefirst) at some point in the future and want to reserveautofor that, I agree we can useautoinstead offirst. As for introducing an non automaticfirst, we can always do it later, so let's defer that until we get demand / use cases.r12a commentedon Aug 23, 2019
Somehow i missed this request for i18n feedback, but I'm wondering whether there was a particular reason that that label was added to this issue. Nothing is coming to mind that applies here.
I also would have naively expected the
autoalternation to be betweennoneandall, rather thannoneandfirst.If
autois used for that alternation, it would generally producefirst/allmost of the time, sincenonewould only be applied when the para starts with a single-letter word. That somehow seems back-to-front for me.(Looking at examples, i noted that another approach here is to use
noneand capitalise the remainder of a word if it is more than one letter long.)I don't know whether that's of any help.
fantasai commentedon Jun 12, 2020
@r12a Well, we know the behavior for space-separated languages requires this automatic behavior, where a first line beginning with a space is treated like 'none' and one without is wrapped in similar to 'all' (but subsequent lines are not so wrapped). The question is whether there are languages that would not want this automatic distinction, and would instead prefer to always wrap the first line tightly to its initial letter.