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Originally Posted by Hitch
I'm unclear about why your 47% isn't working--it should be. I mean...where is it NOT working, that you know of?
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Wide and narrow letters. "W" is noticeably left of center and "I" is right.
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The date and the E aren't on the same line--not at all. That's simply an optical illusion, created by the vertical height of the E.
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Well, yeah, I know they are different paragraphs, but you need to use negative margin to get the top of the date to line with the top of the cap, and that's the way it was in the original book (Michael Palmer's
Extreme Measures, from 1991).
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For what it's worth, just as an FYI, what you're doing isn't a drop cap. It's actually called a Raised Initial.
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I only use the "text-dropcap" name for the style because I use that for all initial caps, regardless of whether they are raised, drop, even floated outside the text.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
It seems to do what you want - at least within Sigil.
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Not even close. That "E" isn't centered:
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<style>
p {text-indent:1.2em; margin:0; padding:0; line-height:1}
p.first {display:inline; padding-left:50%; text-indent:0}
p.first span {font-size:3em; font-family:serif}
p.center {text-align: center; font-size:3em;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="center">I</p>
<p class="first"><span>E</span>nter all ye who would... yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda</p>
<p>And pay heed to those who are...</p>
</body>
</html>