Well, I thought I'd figured out how to get rid of dropcaps. I just opened up a new book, found it had dropcaps and went into Calibre's Editor to get rid of them. Ugh. Here's the stuff around the first letter in the book:
Code:
<p class="first first-in-chapter first-full-width"><span class="first-letter first-letter-i"><span class="first-punctuation punctuation-elevated">“</span>I</span>
I can make almost no sense of that. But, what I do see (and the 1167 line long style.css file seems to confirm it) is that he's got a separate dropcap style for every letter that he uses that way (25), plus a few more for different effects, and raised punctuation styles to go along with it. I guess I'm going to have to live with dropcaps I can't see in this book.