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Originally Posted by Hendrixxxxxxxx
Thanks all. I had seen the \U\E somewhere, but couldn't work out how to get it to work in the "replace" box.
That works perfectly - and Doitsu, thanks for the link to your earlier post. I DID search, but I didn't see that one. Appreciate all your help.
Wombat. Appreciate your thoughts. I am capitalising the first word (unless it is a name, in which case it is the whole name), with the first letter full size and the subsequent ones about 80% small-caps. The content, and hence the "feel" I am trying to create, of the book is of one which could have been published at the turn of the last century....to my mind, this achieves this relatively simply and "unfussily". I agree with you though that drop caps (although I have used them) are often a bit much.....
Phil
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DANGER! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!
Phil, if you are planning on selling that ePUB on B&N, or your client is, I can absolutely promise you that trying to do a full-size cap with smallcaps follow-on lettering will cause you all sorts of agita on a B&N device.
If you use several spans (IOW, more than one) on the first line of a paragraph, in a B&N ePUB, it will either: a) break bizarrely, with strange world hyphenation, mid-word (think...D-og),
or b) the first letter will stay where it is supposed to, and the smallcaps remainder will, I kid thee not, align, one letter at a time, vertically on the page, against the left-margin edge. The double-span use breaks the hyphenation rendering engine, and you get weird, weird, WEIRD results. Not one of them works worth a damn.
The Nook rendering engine purely HATES what you are trying to do. If you searched hard enough, you'll find a really old post of mine--what, guys, anyone remember? 2010 or 11? Maybe even 09?--on this very topic.
It's remotely possible that they've fixed it, but whatever you do, test test and test again,
if you are planning on Nook distro.
Offered FWIW.
ETA: That thread was here, and I repeated the same issue in 2014, so, as of 2014, it was not fixed:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=232395
Hitch