drop caps in paperwhite?

[morrow]

I have been vexing over this for a long while to no fruition. I'm wishing to make dropcap on a file, however although it shows perfectly in Sigil, when I converted the file to azw3 and transferred it to my paperwhite, the text is regular. No dropcap in sight.

This is the sample of the css:

span.dropcaps
{
float: left;
font-size: 60px;
line-height: 50px;
padding-top: 1px;
margin-top: -.09em;
margin-right: .02em;
}

and this is the sample html:

<p><span class="dropcaps">I</span>n the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.

The result in sigil is perfect, exactly what I wanted but how come it didnt show up in my paperwhite? Is there something I forgot to do?

[Doitsu]

For some reason, dropcaps that look OK in Sigil don't look OK in the compiled .mobi file and the dropcaps code that Amazon recommends in the Publishing Guidelines doesn't work in epubs.

Amazon recommends the following code, which works fine on my K3 with the default fonts, if I compile the .epub with KindleGen.

span.dropcaps
{ 
        font-weight:normal; 
        font-size:320%; 
        float:left; 
        margin-top:-0.3225em; 
        margin-bottom:-0.3245em; 
 }

[morrow]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

span.dropcaps
{ 
        font-weight:normal; 
        font-size:320%; 
        float:left; 
        margin-top:-0.3225em; 
        margin-bottom:-0.3245em; 
 }

Thank you, the code have some effect, but it only made the font slightly larger and darker rather than drop cop.

this is what it should look like


and this is what it look like in paperwhite


code:

span.dropcaps
{ 
        font-weight:normal; 
        font-size:320%; 
        float:left; 
        margin-top:-0.2225em; 
        margin-bottom:-0.5245em; 
 }

[Doitsu]

This looks be a problem with Calibres AZW3 converter, try compiling the .epub with Kindle Previewer/KindleGen instead.
(I.e. simply open the .epub file with KP.)
Also don't use Kindle Cloud storage to transfer the file.

[morrow]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

This looks be a problem with Calibres AZW3 converter, try compiling the .epub with Kindle Previewer/KindleGen instead.
(I.e. simply open the .epub file with KP.)
Also don't use Kindle Cloud storage to transfer the file.

Woot, kindlegen works, however, when I try it do it within kindlegen with commands theres a error saying it can't open epub file, but when i dragged it in it works. But the resulting file is in my "DOC" category rather than in "BOOKS".

Any pointers?

Thank you so much.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by morrow

Woot, kindlegen works, however, when I try it do it within kindlegen with commands theres a error saying it can't open epub file, but when i dragged it in it works. But the resulting file is in my "DOC" category rather than in "BOOKS".

Any pointers?

Thank you so much.

Just a guess but possibly a bad file name with illegal characters in it.

Dale

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by morrow

Woot, kindlegen works, however, when I try it do it within kindlegen with commands theres a error saying it can't open epub file, but when i dragged it in it works.

As DaleDe has already pointed out, this is most likely caused by the file name. (For example, spaces or accented characters in the file name and/or the path.) You can avoid this issue by creating a shortcut to kindlegen.exe on the desktop and drag & drop the .epub file on it.

Originally Posted by morrow

But the resulting file is in my "DOC" category rather than in "BOOKS".

This is a known issue. See this thread for more details.

[morrow]

will try, thank you.