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brewt · 01-09-2009, 01:05 PM

Poking through Adobe, it seems they knew the drop cap codes wouldn't work a year-and-change ago:

http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditio...ntent_for.html

Posted by: Joseph Gray | October 26, 2007 10:54 PM

I'll look at the drop cap code. It's most likely a bug in the Digital Editions. All of these properties are supported and should work.

Support for justification is optional per W3C CSS spec and support for margin value of auto is optional per IDPF OPS spec. We are planning to implement them at some point, but you can never rely on a reading system to support those.

I'm reasonably sure there's been an update or two since 10/07 to ADE, so, this hasn't been on the priority list.

And, as long as we're at it:

Posted by: Kuldeep Kumar | December 23, 2008 01:35 AM

There is no way to turn off page number marks at this point, but it is on our list.

Confession is good:

Posted by: vuchrfvdvr | October 1, 2007 10:46 AM

Some other CSS that doesn't seem to work in Digital Editions are the following:

text-align: justify;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

More on the party line:

http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditio..._editions.html

-bjc

01-09-2009, 01:05 PM	#12
brewt Boo-Frickety-Hoo-Erizer Posts: 251 Karma: 686 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Kobo Glo HD!	Poking through Adobe, it seems they knew the drop cap codes wouldn't work a year-and-change ago: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditio...ntent_for.html Posted by: Joseph Gray \| October 26, 2007 10:54 PM I'll look at the drop cap code. It's most likely a bug in the Digital Editions. All of these properties are supported and should work. Support for justification is optional per W3C CSS spec and support for margin value of auto is optional per IDPF OPS spec. We are planning to implement them at some point, but you can never rely on a reading system to support those. I'm reasonably sure there's been an update or two since 10/07 to ADE, so, this hasn't been on the priority list. And, as long as we're at it: Posted by: Kuldeep Kumar \| December 23, 2008 01:35 AM There is no way to turn off page number marks at this point, but it is on our list. Confession is good: Posted by: vuchrfvdvr \| October 1, 2007 10:46 AM Some other CSS that doesn't seem to work in Digital Editions are the following: text-align: justify; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; More on the party line: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditio..._editions.html -bjc