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Originally Posted by charleski
No current epub designer creates proper dropcaps (don't know why you keep talking about character styles - I think you're just confusing yourself), not even InDesign. If you want dropcaps right now then you need to code the css by hand, there's a thread on this forum that shows how to do it.
I don't know the priorities of the Atlantis team, but automatic dropcap creation would be finicky to do correctly. Word's method is a kludge that can't be translated to reflowable documents, and poorly-done dropcaps look worse than no dropcaps at all. If you want to mark the first character in some way, use bold or increase the font size slightly.
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I am an Open Office writer user, I haven't used word regularly for years. I have been using eScape by IGP, and they refer to Drop/Raised caps etc... as character styles. You are right, though eScape uses the css to produce the dropcap, you cannot see it in writer.
Thanks for the point to that thread.
Truth be told I am probably going to purchase Atlantis, it is the best wysiwyg editor I have come across.
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Originally Posted by awp
If Atlantis had the "drop cap" function, it would be fairly easy to save "drop-capped" letters to EPUB. Atlantis would convert them to graphic files, and format them with the "left" align in EPUB XHTML. Something like this:
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<img src="images/img1.png" alt="img1.png" align="left"/>
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I'll be looking forward to this
