[Hitch]

Originally Posted by crutledge

As ever, Hitch, you are right. I have used two formats to decorate the first character of a chapter. Only the first has been consistant on all devices I have access to and it's an up-cap rather than a drop-cap.

Oh, would that it were 'ere so (that I am right, "as ever").

The drop-cap displays very low on the Paperwhite but fine on the other Kindle devices.

Yuppperdoodle, as our bookmaker Barb says here at the Factory Grimm. And it usually looks like crap-city on the Kindle for iPad/iPhone, too, in the real world devices. And if that doesn't get you, it will look different yet again on the Cloud Reader. I hate to say it, but BFL's (Big First Letters, boxed with an invisible border, essentially) and RI's (Raised Initials, which I think you're referring to as an "up-cap") are about the only thing that work consistently. When you throw in K7, K8, 10 different devices, different screen resolutions and the lack of an actual vertical spacing control...well, hell.

I have thought to experiment with glyphs but they seem even more unpredictable. Perhaps I can find a better html call to display the glyphs.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

Any criticism will be appreciated.

Moi? Never.

.first_letter {
 font-size : 150%;
 font-weight : bold;
/* float:left;*/
 width : 1em;
 color : black;
 }

span.dropcap {
    float: left;
    font-size: 2.7em;
    line-height: 0.8em;
    margin-right: 3pt;
    margin-bottom: -0.1em;
}

The First-Letter has a width set--is that to try to achieve a type of vertical spacing? I think I misunderstand what you're trying to accomplish with the First-Letter class; it looks a bit like a Raised Initial to me, but my inference from your posts is something else. Can you clarify, please?

I think that Dropcap looks relatively correct; I'd have to go look at our own coding for our "standard," which of course, gets tweaked every time, depending on the font. But everybody's Drops are pretty much the same, for the same reasons: only so much you can do with the limitations both in ePUB and in MOBI/K8.

Hitch