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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Hitch said
Well, that is mightily depressing. Faux small caps don't work? But it is just a simple span, how could they mess up something that basic? Must I give up my drop cap with faux small caps?
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You can try it, of course (I never discourage the enthusiastic endeavors of others), but, of all the things, un-freaking-believably, we just ran into this yesterday. A bookmaker who was not here back in the day of THAT BOOK, the one with the mis-described (by the client) "drop-cap" (she meant, Raised Initial) followed by smallcaps. So, she (bookmaker) did a faux-small-cap (all caps with <small> tags) and, (Jim Nabors voice here), Sur-prise, Sur-prise, Sur-prise!, ADE broke the words at random locations. Man, it just does not seem to like the word "small" inside ANY brackets. ;-) Not smallcaps with something else...{shrug}.
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@cybmole, I agree. I personally like to use a logical phrase or sentence fragment, not necessarily the same number of words for each chapter. I really don't like the "single word" set off this way -- a short word like "the" or "but" looks like an orphan child sitting there in its solitary all-caps splendor. Even if traditional publishers have been using that for several centuries now (at least since the mid-1800's).
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We use our own eyes, regardless of what existed before, and usually, we end up having to discuss it with the client, because we still have a very large clientele that doesn't really "get" the whole reflowable thing.
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Use font-variant and :first-line, and nothing will actually be lost (you will not see the small-caps in most readers, but is it so important?)
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Hmmm...it's an idea. I haven't tried using BOTH that and a span of any kind (for whatever), together...I wonder if I could create some type of ePUB fall-back, like we do with Kindle? Hmmmmmmm. I mean, we know that first-line, etc., does not work on Nook. I believe it does not work on Kobo, but not 100% sure. It works on iBooks, but we really don't design "for" iBooks,
per se. We aim our design more or less toward highest ROI (Return on Investment) for the buyer/client/author.
Hitch