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Old 01-09-2025, 10:38 AM   #184
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Originally Posted by ryder View Post
Ok, so now I know you can call me oldschool officially, because I didn't know about drop caps before your post. After googling it, I saw what you meant. I came across those drop caps in the first book of "a song of ice and fire" and my first thought was: wtf? So I went straight to calibre and removed them by converting the epub. I find the idea bizarre that a single letter is as big as 3 or 4 lines and also messing up my hyphenation. If you have the choice between good hyphenation and those big letters beginning every new chapter, what would you choose? I mean the hyphenation goes through the whole book and those big letters are just for about 15 seconds until you tap or swish to the next page. Or what is it exactly that some people like those fancy things? I know that the eye is pretty much involved in that topic, but the reading flow is more important for me than that
The thing is, by editing the code by hand, you get to do things your way and make sure it's correct.
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