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Old 12-26-2024, 09:01 AM   #253
Falkor
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
1. Kindle doesn't use epub directly at all (majority). Most actual ereaders have limited to no support for epub3.

2. Elephant in room. It's publisher ego and reduces readability.

3. It's not at all needed.

4. Plenty of paper books don't do it with no loss of sales.
1. I don't know if initial-letter is in the epub3 spec. Yet plenty of software supports it.

2. Decorative initials have been around for many centuries and all of a sudden they have become "publisher ego"?

3. Plenty of ePubs do use drop caps. They're not exactly uncommon. So yes, I think this feature is needed.

4. Using or not using drop caps is a choice. Even if you don't agree when someone chooses to set a book with drop caps, the initial-letter property could make it easier to remove them, because it's just one setting that needs to be overriden. That could be a feature of the eReader device or software. Although I guess it may be a better approach to simply ignore ::first-letter entirely…
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