Is there a way to strip drop caps?

ficbot · 08-30-2013, 11:47 AM

I have some books which have drop caps at the start of the chapter, and I can't get them to display properly on my Kobo. I have tried reconverting them to epub and it helped a little (they no longer are giant-sized) but they still are messing up the books. Is there a way to easily fix this?

theducks · 08-30-2013, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ficbot

I have some books which have drop caps at the start of the chapter, and I can't get them to display properly on my Kobo. I have tried reconverting them to epub and it helped a little (they no longer are giant-sized) but they still are messing up the books. Is there a way to easily fix this?

Hack the CSS with TweakEPUB. Just comment out the /* .old_class { stuff} */

then find the basic paragraph style and add the old class name

.normal, .old_class {...

That leaves a hint of the hack and easily reversed as the coding is still in place, just not acted upon differently

cybmole · 08-30-2013, 12:06 PM

if you don't plan to ever reverse the code do as I do. look in stylesheet.css file for something like this
.dropcap {
blah
blah
blah
}
& delete everything between the curly brackets...
in most cases the annoying style is helpfully called dropcap or dropcaps, but if not you just have to work a little harder to find & tweak it.

08-30-2013, 11:47 AM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	Is there a way to strip drop caps? I have some books which have drop caps at the start of the chapter, and I can't get them to display properly on my Kobo. I have tried reconverting them to epub and it helped a little (they no longer are giant-sized) but they still are messing up the books. Is there a way to easily fix this?

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08-30-2013, 12:06 PM	#3
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	if you don't plan to ever reverse the code do as I do. look in stylesheet.css file for something like this .dropcap { blah blah blah } & delete everything between the curly brackets... in most cases the annoying style is helpfully called dropcap or dropcaps, but if not you just have to work a little harder to find & tweak it.

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