https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70180
--- Comment #20 from David Lee <[email protected]> --- Might I suggest that Drop Caps is just one aspect of the more general problem? Might it be better to look at the general problem and use Drop Caps as just one sample case amongst others? Rather than thinking "Drop Caps" might we instead think "First Letter" and "First Word". Indeed, see the original report, way back at 2013-10-06 04:04:19 UTC. The request there was expressed "highlight the first word". (It digressed onto Drop Caps, because that seemed to be the suboptimal, unclean way to fake the real aim.) And I've ended up here just now (having stumbled across the bug report) because my use-case, vital for my project, is "highlight the first letter".(*) Note, off to the side, that CSS also has a "first-letter" concept: in other words, the CSS way of thinking is also the generalised "first..." rather than the much more limited, special-case "Drop Caps". Could we re-activate this work, please, from a frame of mind that is about a relatively general "first-letter" and "first-word", and then bundling in "Drop Caps" as a sample use-case of that? (*) In my own "first-letter" case, I could theoretically patch up my text after the event, at finalisation. But it would be far cleaner for my paragraph style itself to use such styling, with it automatically maintaining things properly and reliably during the editing process (over five years so far, and counting...!). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
