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[css-inline] Add note to describe advantages of raisied initial over simply using a larger font size for first letter
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<h4 id="raise-initial">
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Raised Initial Letters</h4>
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A <dfn>raised initial</dfn> (often called a “raised cap” or “stick-up cap”) “sinks” to the first text baseline. Unlike simply increasing the font size, which affects the line spacing below it to make room for potential descenders, it does not sink below that.
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A <dfn>raised initial</dfn> (often called a “raised cap” or “stick-up cap”) “sinks” to the first text baseline.
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Note: A proper raised initial has several advantages
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over simply increasing the font size of a first letter.
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The line spacing in the rest of the paragraph
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will not be altered, but text will still be excluded
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around large descenders.
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And if the size of raised initial is defined
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to be an integral number of lines,
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implicit baseline grids can be maintained.
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