Thread: Drop Caps Help?
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Old 05-13-2025, 06:02 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Other than both books being terrible examples of coding, Shadows of Ecstasy has the coding for a drop cap while War in Heaven does not. Oddly the version of War in Heaven in the epub secion of MobileRead's library does have dropcaps and used header tags for the chapter headers.

In Shadows of Ecstasy, the calibre1 and calibre2 classes set font size to 1.125em and 1.5em respectively while in War in Heaven, the only style applied to the first paragraph sets the top and bottom margin to 1em.

I would also suggest changing the use of pt (an absolute unit) in War in Heaven to a relative unit (em for example).
Thanks. I can't take the blame for the coding of War in Heaven! It is pretty much as I found it. I focused on removing scanning artifacts and adding footnotes and annotations. Similarly, the "Raised Caps" were already in the ePub version of Shadows of Ecstasy. Again, my efforts were to clean up the text and add notes. The input here will get me what I need. Many thanks.
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