italic letter

基本解释

Swash letter: A florid version of standard italic capital letters, usually used for ornamentation.
花饰字：加上装饰的标准斜体英文大写字母；作装饰用。
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Swash letter A florid version of standard italic capital letters, usually used for ornamentation. Swash capitals are often used with italic lower case letters.
加上装饰的标准斜体英文大写字母；作装饰用。花饰大写，通常配合斜体小写使用。
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You can make your fonts italic, you can make them bold, and you can make the first letter of a paragraph larger than the rest of the text.
你可以将字体设置为斜体的，你可以将它们设置为粗体的，你也可以将段落的第一个字母设置的比文章中其它的字母大。