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Old 01-18-2009, 02:54 PM   #1
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css drop caps coming out of calibre

I've moved from my original thread, because this looks to me to be a calibre-specific question.


Jellby, llasram and Peter seem to have worked out my original problem with drop caps in an epub in general. They demonstrated a working example that appears correctly in ADE, Sony and Calibre Reading software. (Message 54 from this page: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=35928&page=4). See attached [ original viewers.jpg ]

But when I try to recreate it using Calibre to generate the files (even using their original source directly, without modification) I get a different result in ADE. See attached [rebuilt-viewers.jpg ]

If I open the xhtml outputed by calibre in a browser, the drop cap works properly. As do the margins, italics, etc. So the re-writing of the css by calibre doesn't seem to completely break it, but is it possible that ADE doesn't like the multiple cross references of the css? (guessing?)

Original xhtml:

Quote:
<p class="initial"><span class="drop">A</span><span class="first
afterA">ntes</span> de enseñar el primer cabo de nuestra...</p>
Linking to original style.css:

Quote:
p.initial {
text-indent: 0;
}
span.drop {
font-size: 400%;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1;
height: 1em;
float: left;
margin: -0.1em 0.125em -0.1em 0.25em;
}
span.first {
margin-left: -0.5em;
white-space: pre;
}
span.afterA {
margin-left: -1.0em;
}

Rebuilt xhtml:

Quote:
<p class="initial"><span class="drop" id="cfs_1">A</span><span class="first
afterA">ntes</span> de enseñar el primer cabo de nuestra ...</p>
Rebuilt style_0_0.css:

Quote:
p.initial {
text-indent: 0
}
span.drop {
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1;
height: 1em;
float: left;
margin: -0.1em 0.125em -0.1em 0.25em
}
span.first {
margin-left: -0.5em;
white-space: pre
}
span.afterA {
margin-left: -1.0em
}
Cross references to rebuilt Capitulo01_1.css:

Quote:
#cfs_1 {
font-size: 400.000000%
}
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Old 01-18-2009, 03:09 PM   #2
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If the rebuilt file is rendering correctly in calibre and web browsers in general, then the problem is a bug in the way ADE processes the CSS.

The main change in the rebuilt file CSS comes from font rescaling. Try setting the base font size to zero in the calibre conversion preferences before re-converting the file and see if that helps. (You don't need font size rescaling if your original file has good font sizes in the first place).
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Try setting the base font size to zero in the calibre conversion preferences before re-converting the file and see if that helps. (You don't need font size rescaling if your original file has good font sizes in the first place).

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Old 01-18-2009, 04:00 PM   #4
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