Description:
Example.  Take the following two "lorem ipsum" paragraphs and assume they are long enough for line-wrapping; apply "Drop Caps" paragraph styling:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...," she said.

In both cases the first glyph is DropCapped.

The first looks good; the "dropping" applies to the capital-L.  It is what the user expects.

The second looks poor (or worse); the dropping is applied to the opening quotation mark.  It is unlikely (although not impossible) that the user had wanted this; they would generally (although there may be exceptions) want the capital-L to be dropped.

I propose adding a tick-box option to the "Drop Caps" part of "Paragraph style" called something like "Skip leading punctuation".  If selected, the DropCap operation would skip over leading punctuation characters (the first quotation mark in my example-pair) and take effect at the first real non-punctuation (typically alphanumeric).  So both paragraphs would have the "L" drop-capped; the second would retain its opening quotation mark in non-dropped form.

Naturally, we would need tighter definitions of "punctuation" here. And I can see that there might be internationalisation and character classification aspects.  But initially at least can we focus on the high-level desirability of such an option.

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