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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It is true that the current ebook standards make it very hard, if not impossible, to do things that should be simple, and so make formatting ebooks to look good a lot harder than it should be.
* No good way to do drop capitals, either of images or characters.
* No good way to do raised capitals without affecting the line spacing of the first line, or forcing line spacing to a fixed value.
* No good way to make an image and caption fit a full page
* (display software problem) No consistent way to do proper smallcaps
* No good way to properly format poetry (e.g. wrapping lines so the wrapped part is aligned right)
And those are just the ones that immediately spring to mind.
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I'm interested in some details (just curiosity). Except for the first point (drop cases), which I know are impossible to do correctly currently (
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline/...letter-styling ), and small-caps (software problem indeed).
I haven't spend a huge time with this, so I think it will not be difficult for you to turn my mind around. Here's my "à-priori" about each of the subsequent points:
- What's the problem with line-height? It should allow you to do raised capitals without line spacing problem (character spacing however between your capital and the following letter remains a problem).
- What's the problem with applying a "max-height: 90%;" (for instance) value to your image inside a container, following a caption? I guess it might be annoying if the caption is multiline?
- Can't you just use 'text-align: right;' and some right-padding/margin for your poetry?
Thanks.