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Originally Posted by 52novels
Code:
p:first-of-type::first-line {
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: small-caps;
}
To see an example of this in commercially-available Kindle book, get the sample for Blake Crouch's ABANDON ( http://www.amazon.com/Abandon-ebook/dp/B00ARJLYE0). There's enough of the sample to see this work in KF8 devices and apps. I chose not to make this book fully backward compatible for legacy MOBI, so the CSS above displays the first line text in sentence case. I suppose the "conventional" way of making small caps with spans and a media query could be done for these, but the project's constraints didn't afford a lot of time to try. Plus, I figured, the issue will eventually resolve itself over time and that readers using the legacy systems weren't going to be adversely affected by the absence of small caps.
One additional note: I didn't want the first line of the first <p> tag in the author's bib page and copyright page to have small caps. As such, I added a selector (p.chapstart:first-of-type::first-line) to limit this effect to certain pages. It may be somewhat inefficient and add more specificity than I'd like, but it worked and the author loved it so I shipped. /shrug |
Maybe I've mis-remembered, but I believe we were talking about how to make that work for K7, as well, as there are still millions--millions--of K7 devices out there upon which these books could be read?
Hitch