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Originally Posted by jackm8

Amazons site mentions Drop caps as a feature in their Advanced Typesetting blurb. Does anyone know of any book example where they are used?

Here is what I use:

.text-dropcap {
  float: left;
  line-height: 32%;
  margin-top: 0.24em;
  margin-right: 0.05em;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-left: 0;
  font-size: 315%; /* ePub 2 lines */
  font-weight: bold;
}

@media amzn-kf8 {
  .text-dropcap {
	  /* font-size: 265%; /* 3 lines */
    font-size: 150%; /* 2 lines */
  }
}

Then, just <p><span class="text-dropcap">T</span>he dropcap demo.</p>.

KFX responds to the "amzn-kf8" media query, so that allows you to customize the font size. You have to use a much smaller font size than you would for EPUB. It appears that Amazon is using something like the draft CSS initial-letter, where all you supply is the size and and the renderer automatically figures out how to locate the drop cap where it belongs.

Unfortunately, my code won't work with actual KF8, because KF8 uses the same sizing as EPUB, but the media query overrides that.