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Old 05-02-2017, 08:25 PM   #597
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Originally Posted by pirl8 View Post
It seems to me that this is a "classical" CSS solution. I've tried to load sample (see attachment - it's in Italian but that shouldn't do any difference) either with Kindle Previewer 2 and Kindle Previewer 3. The suggested dropcaps solution works in both cases. In the latter the first letter is rendered as normal text if the font is too big.
From the Previewer 3 - Frequently Asked Questions:
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Q2. What is Enhanced Typesetting?
A2. Kindle books with Enhanced Typesetting enable a better reading experience by providing a series of typographical and layout features that are automatically enabled on Kindle books. It provides smoother word spacing with better hyphenation, drop caps that dynamically adjust with font size, kerning and ligature improvements, adaptive page layout and margins, allowing faster reading with less eyestrain. Visit http://www.amazon.com/betterreading for more information on Enhanced Typesetting.
Perhaps your finding about how large font sizes are handled is the only significant change in dropcaps for KFX. Amazon does not provide any details.

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Also, it seems to me that non-breakable-spaces are not honored in KFX.
There was some discussion about nbsp characters in KFX earlier in this thread. My understanding is that they are honored as long as they are not over used.
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