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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - initial letters should respect font style setting"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161070">161070</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>initial letters should respect font style setting
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Macintosh
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>OS X 10.11
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>CSS
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>jeremychen&#64;mozilla.com
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        <pre>In current implementation, it seems that a newFontDescription is created and set for initial-letter's pseudoStyle.
However, only size is considered, the other font related style is not.
I think web authors may prefer have initial-letter keep its flexibility to set a font different from its surrounding text.
This also mentioned in spec: <a href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline/#initial-letter-properties">https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline/#initial-letter-properties</a> as well. 

test case: <a href="http://codepen.io/anon/pen/AXkxbE">http://codepen.io/anon/pen/AXkxbE</a></pre>
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