Mats Broberg said this at Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:51:04 +0100:
Different typefaces and different characters need different level of protruding into the left margin, as well as other actions of tweaking.
Ah, but when Hans says this:
it's a good testbed for playing with things like glyph shape similarity and such; also, proper alignment is an issue.
... it makes me think that these things may indeed be under consideration, as it sounds like hooks into the recently-improved Handling mechanisms. (And then fancy Lettrine handling sounds like it becomes 2-dimensional handling, then I start thinking about "Optical Kerning" features in Famous DTP Package and then I get dizzy, and need to sit down.) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-