Thread: Formula for calculating drop caps
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Old 05-19-2019, 06:37 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
(Do you have any idea whether initial-letter is on a track to being standardized? The article that you linked is over three years old.)
Doesn't matter. Too many different versions of ADE out there and you cannot guarantee that a version of ADE that supports this will be what's used. There are a lot of Readers out there still using an old version of ADE. Heck, there are Readers using FBReader to display ePub and then there are all the different programs for Android and iOS that will never support this.

The problem is that ePub wasn't fully finished wen the spec was released and getting all these programs to support new additions isn't easy and may never happen and even if all these programs did support the latest features, try getting all these programs updated for every instance where they are used. Not likely to happen. For example, look at Kobo. It uses RMSDK (ADE). But Kobo has not updated RMSDK in like forever and may never do so.
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