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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Not having Hitch's chops, I long ago gave up drop-caps, and I've never been tempted to try their less-handsome substitutes. Instead I use boldface faux small caps @ 90 percent. KF7 ignores the 90 percent and I think also the boldface, with a result that's perfectly acceptable.
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I'm not gonna lie--
to do it right is a crapload of work. Every font is different, and you have to write custom MQ's for every individual font, against the myriad device base fonts, and the abysmal reality is, no matter WHAT you do, no matter how good you are,
if you use fonts for the drops, you're screwed on the Paperwhites if the reader does not elect to use Publisher fonts. Unlike all the other KF8s, you
can't embed the Drop font and force it; the PPW family allows complete overriding, so...
screwed. (All those people that use that Mac program, the one that they think is
sooooooooooooo awesome, to format their books? With the Bilbo Swash Caps? Open one of
those suckers on a PPW. [
shudders delicately])
You
could do a workaround with a graphic first letter. but again, that ain't for the faint of heart,
either. Before Ruben jumps in--for ALL devices, Rube! ;-)
(You know I love ya, right?)
Hitch