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Psymon · 12-15-2013, 03:31 PM

I'm so exasperated, I just can't seem to figure this out.

I have two issues (unrelated), it would seem...

First, when I add in my mobi styles (which I put at the end of my CSS file -- I'm assuming that's where they should go), most of them seem to work okay in KDX. And that's great! But at the same time I end up losing my embedded fonts in Paperwhite -- all I have to do is temporarily delete all those mobi styles and the embedded fonts come right back again (in PW).

I have no idea why they don't continue to show up in PW, just because I add in those mobi styles -- which should only be affecting KDX, right?

Secondly, I just... can't... seem... to get my stupid dropcaps (using images) to look okay. It's no problem to get them to look like they're supposed to (with minor variations) in everything, using the same code that I was using before, but I just can't seem to get things to work in KDX.

I just don't know what to do -- and I don't even care if I do them up an entirely different way, or if they're placed/sized differently than what I had, I just want them to look okay in "everything". I've searched these forums, and elsewhere on the 'net, and I just can't seem to find anything about this subject -- surely there's gotta be something, somewhere, about using images as dropcaps (and in a way that works in all Kindles, including DX)? I just can't seem to find anything anywhere. Surely I can't be the first person to ever try this (let alone succeed at getting it to work)?

I just don't know what to do.

12-15-2013, 03:31 PM	#100
Psymon Chief Bohemian Misfit Posts: 571 Karma: 462964 Join Date: May 2013 Device: iPad, ADE	I'm so exasperated, I just can't seem to figure this out. I have two issues (unrelated), it would seem... First, when I add in my mobi styles (which I put at the end of my CSS file -- I'm assuming that's where they should go), most of them seem to work okay in KDX. And that's great! But at the same time I end up losing my embedded fonts in Paperwhite -- all I have to do is temporarily delete all those mobi styles and the embedded fonts come right back again (in PW). I have no idea why they don't continue to show up in PW, just because I add in those mobi styles -- which should only be affecting KDX, right? Secondly, I just... can't... seem... to get my stupid dropcaps (using images) to look okay. It's no problem to get them to look like they're supposed to (with minor variations) in everything, using the same code that I was using before, but I just can't seem to get things to work in KDX. I just don't know what to do -- and I don't even care if I do them up an entirely different way, or if they're placed/sized differently than what I had, I just want them to look okay in "everything". I've searched these forums, and elsewhere on the 'net, and I just can't seem to find anything about this subject -- surely there's gotta be something, somewhere, about using images as dropcaps (and in a way that works in all Kindles, including DX)? I just can't seem to find anything anywhere. Surely I can't be the first person to ever try this (let alone succeed at getting it to work)? I just don't know what to do.