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Originally Posted by brewt
Since our old friend Word (now with 300% more evil) doesn't do these things like this at all, and Indesign places Word Docs (taking with it the above-mentioned evil), is there a way to create the Drop Cap from within Indesign that would work in the Epub?
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Frankly, I am not an expert on that. I mostly create my EPUBs by hand or from something called "FB2" (mostly used for Russian books). I think you really should treat InDesign export as a starting point; certainly styling scripts/tools are needed to do this sort of things.
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And on the (I know - touchy) subject of "glitches", may we recommend employing our friend Kovid Goyal? Not that I speak for him, but as an admirer, his efforts toward this whole digital reading thing have been pretty darn good....
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Oh, there is nothing touchy about bugs, especially bugs in CSS layout. Word may be evil, but CSS is insane. Unfortunately, we are stuck with both.
Kovid - I think he is studying for PhD in physics (as I once did). I'd say being a scientist is more noble than being a software engineer, so first, let's see if he gets bored with academia. Besides, he may not be able to work on free ebook stuff if he is employed by Adobe, so be careful what you wish for.