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Originally Posted by roger64
But why argue about "ebook philosophy"? This is maybe going a little too far. After all, one of the features of EPUB3 is to allow a fixed layout for enriched texts. So, I cannot see why dropcaps should be condamned for philosophy or principle reasons. They are part of the game. Ragged text will disappear from the EPUBs of tomorrow long before the dropcaps do.  |
For me, the "ebook philosophy" is to let the user change things like font, font size, line separation, margins... With this requisites, the use of dropcaps (and similar things, like figures around which the text wraps) is fragile, make some (maybe unusal) change to the font, screen size, etc. and you get undesirable results.
I don't say dropcaps should be proscribed, but this fact should be kept in mind when deciding whether or not to use them (and how).
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Further, two more twoliners exemples coming from a printed book with the "unaccceptable" Q behaviour (Q is often very tricky...) and a drop cap with a previous quote mark.
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The Q example is indeed unacceptable. A self-respected typesetter would never allow that, and would apply some tweaks to prevent the clash between the Q's tail and the i's dot (make the Q slightly smaller, change the word spacing a bit to move the i away...). The quote mark example is acceptable, although some might not like it.