[Doonge]

@pdurrant

Gotcha for the poetry (it should be fixed one day when ::first-line works), and perhaps the caption thing (in what way is it unreliable?).

But I am stuck with your raised capital thing.

Try this for a raised capital:

font-size: 3em;
line-height: 0.3333em;

or this

font-size: 4em;
line-height: 0.25em;

or whatever (line-height is simply the inverse of font-size, normally line-height is 1.2 the font size, so it will be less than regular line-height, so it should not mess with regular line-height?).


Doesn't it work? Only adjustement I can think of is making sure your top-margin is OK (you don't want the raised capital to collide with a top element, depends what it is - but usually drop cap are for the first paragraph of a chapter, so you only need to properly space it from the chapter title...), and perhaps adjusting the space between the raised capital and the following letter (but that's impossible to do it elegantly as it's font specific, and it is a minor problem: it's the only drop cap type I'd allow myself to do in a "generic" manner)