Drop Cap applies to punctuation

[aaronjorbin]

If the text starts with a since letter and a punctuation mark (such as the word "I've"), then both the letter and the punctuation mark appear bigly.

[westonruter]

This seems to be due to ::first-letter is being used, and according to MDN:

The first letter of an element is not always trivial to identify: ¶ Punctuation that precedes or immediately follows the first letter is included in the match. Punctuation includes any Unicode character defined in the open (Ps), close (Pe), initial quote (Pi), final quote (Pf), and other punctuation (Po) classes.

The solution may involve #1340 in which the PHP render callback can wrap the actual first letter with a span which can then be styled without using ::first-letter.

[mtias]

Sounds like the alternative of just making the I bigger but keep the ' as the first item of the small line wouldn't be a great typographic experience either. Since this is opt-in, I think we should just consider it a tradeoff.

[jasmussen]

I'm going to close this one as, while I agree with the sentiment of the ticket — it would be nice with smarts here — there isn't really anything we can do. Since it's an advanced feature, off by default, and actively toggled presumably through intent, an argument can be made that this is both expected behavior and a "feature". In other words if we were able to make some smarts here, then the opposite argument could be made — drop cap doesn't work for punctuation. Who knows what crazy poetry someone might want to write.

[JJJ]

I do not expect for an apostrophe to be part of the drop-cap. It looks really weird, and feels like a bug.