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Old 02-12-2015, 08:23 PM   #1
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First letter in chapter should be large and bold - it is not.

I downloaded an epub book from the library and the first letter font of each word in the beginning of the chapter is large and bold (Adobe editions).

However when I transferred it to the kobo touch to read, the first letter is the same size as the rest of the text and only offset.

It looks like a font formatting issue that it can't display two different font sizes.

Is there a way to correct this? or just one of those things to live with?
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Old 02-12-2015, 08:58 PM   #2
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With library books you really just have to live with it.

If you buy the book yourself you could remove the DRM and edit the book's stylesheet to fix the problem.
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Old 02-12-2015, 09:10 PM   #3
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Even then that's a bit of a hastle. It should work properly by now.
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Old 02-12-2015, 09:10 PM   #4
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Care to share the name of the book so others can investigate?
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Old 02-12-2015, 09:36 PM   #5
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Even then that's a bit of a hastle. It should work properly by now.
Yes, it should. But, if there is some funny code in the book that can get interpreted differently, then you have a problem.

In ADE, does the first letter appear to be a different font than the rest? If so, it probably means the font is on the PC but not on the device. Adding the font might fix it, but it also needs the code in the book to be correct.

If we could see the book, or the code in it, we might be able to work out what is happening.
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Old 02-12-2015, 10:00 PM   #6
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The book is, The Sword of Shannara epub.
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Old 02-12-2015, 10:28 PM   #7
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The book is, The Sword of Shannara epub.
#1 on the hold list. Will report on what I see when I get it.
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Old 02-12-2015, 10:46 PM   #8
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You could also try the Elfstones of Shannara, or The Wishsong of Shannara. They will be of the same format.
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Old 02-12-2015, 11:36 PM   #9
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I have The Sword of Shannara and it displays just fine on my H2O. Well, not fine, the publisher left out
Code:
line-height: 0
so the first line is spaced out too much.

The code is...

XML Code:
Code:
<p class="tx1" id="beg"><span class="chbeg">T</span>he sun was already sinking into the deep green of the hills to the west of the valley, the red and gray-pink of its shadows touching the corners of the land, when Flick Ohmsford began his descent. The trail stretched out unevenly down the northern slope, winding through the huge boulders which studded the rugged terrain in massive clumps, disappearing into the thick forests of the lowlands to reappear in brief glimpses in small clearings and thinning spaces of woodland. Flick followed the familiar trail with his eyes as he trudged wearily along, his light pack slung loosely over one shoulder. His broad, windburned face bore a set, placid look, and only the wide gray eyes revealed the restless energy that burned beneath the calm exterior. He was a young man, though his stocky build and the grizzled brown hair and shaggy eyebrows made him look much older. He wore the loose-fitting work clothes of the Vale people and in the pack he carried were several metal implements that rolled and clanked loosely against one another.</p>
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p.tx1
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	text-indent:0%;
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Old 02-12-2015, 11:43 PM   #10
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align="center"><a id="filepos10065"></a><img src="image_4.gif"></img></p><pagebreak></pagebreak><a id="filepos10170"></a><p height="3em" width="0pt" align="center"><font size="4"><b>I</b></font></p><p height="1em" width="0pt" align="justify"><font size="5"><b>T</b></font>he sun was already sinking into the deep green of the hills to the west of the valley, the red and gray-pink of

This is how it appears in my copy. The entire book is in a "main.css" file.

Not setup as a Dropcap. Appears in Koreader as bold but in the line above, not where it should.

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align="center"><a id="filepos10065"></a><img src="image_4.gif"></img></p><pagebreak></pagebreak><a id="filepos10170"></a><p height="3em" width="0pt" align="center"><font size="4"><b>I</b></font></p><p height="1em" width="0pt" align="justify"><font size="5"><b>T</b></font>he sun was already sinking into the deep green of the hills to the west of the valley, the red and gray-pink of

This is how it appears in my copy. The entire book is in a "main.css" file.

Not setup as a Dropcap. Appears in Koreader as bold but in the line above, not where it should.

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What version do you have? Check the copyright page.

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A Del Rey® Book
Published by The Ballantine Publishing GroupCopyright © 1977 by Terry BrooksIllustrations copyright © 1977 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-53925
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eISBN: 978-0-345-44464-6
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This si the text from the copyright of the version I have. It says it's v3.0. If your ISBN matches and your version number is lower, then you have an older version.
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What version do you have? Check the copyright page.



This si the text from the copyright of the version I have. It says it's v3.0. If your ISBN matches and your version number is lower, then you have an older version.
It is obvious that we have different versions of the DelRey edition. Your's looks to be using more recent procedures, but which, of all possible versions the OP may have, is closest to his might be questioned.

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align="center"><a id="filepos10065"></a><img src="image_4.gif"></img></p><pagebreak></pagebreak><a id="filepos10170"></a><p height="3em" width="0pt" align="center"><font size="4"><b>I</b></font></p><p height="1em" width="0pt" align="justify"><font size="5"><b>T</b></font>he sun was already sinking into the deep green of the hills to the west of the valley, the red and gray-pink of

This is how it appears in my copy. The entire book is in a "main.css" file.

Not setup as a Dropcap. Appears in Koreader as bold but in the line above, not where it should.

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Wow. That looks like output from KindleUnpack!
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Wow. That looks like output from KindleUnpack!
Could be, I'm not sure where I got that file. But whatever the source, the issue seems to be related to figuring out why when viewed in some readers, like the one with calibre, the first word of the first paragraph of each chapter begins with a larger bold capital letter, but the same file, when viewed on the device, displays the first word otherwise.

The same formatting code in the epub produces different results, in the different readers. So, it would seem that the problem is in how the different reading software handles the formatting code in the epub. Since at least one of the readers is displaying it in the expected manner, the fault is not in the epub file.

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It is obvious that we have different versions of the DelRey edition. Your's looks to be using more recent procedures, but which, of all possible versions the OP may have, is closest to his might be questioned.

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I went to Overdrive to check the file size of my version with the Overdrive version. The Overdrive version is larger so I downloaded The Sword of Shannara again and it's now version 3.1 and the code is different.

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<p class="nonindent"><span class="dropcapsimage"><img alt="" src="images/Broo_9780345444646_epub_002_r1.jpg"/></span>he sun was already sinking into the deep green of the hills to the west of the valley, the red and gray-pink of its shadows touching the corners of the land, when Flick Ohmsford began his descent. The trail stretched out unevenly down the northern slope, winding through the huge boulders which studded the rugged terrain in massive clumps, disappearing into the thick forests of the lowlands to reappear in brief glimpses in small clearings and thinning spaces of woodland. Flick followed the familiar trail with his eyes as he trudged wearily along, his light pack slung loosely over one shoulder. His broad, windburned face bore a set, placid look, and only the wide gray eyes revealed the restless energy that burned beneath the calm exterior. He was a young man, though his stocky build and the grizzled brown hair and shaggy eyebrows made him look much older. He wore the loose-fitting work clothes of the Vale people and in the pack he carried were several metal implements that rolled and clanked loosely against one another.</p>
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Code:
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margin-top: .3em;
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margin-bottom: 0.0em;
margin-top: 0.0em;
text-align: justify;
text-indent: 0;
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span.dropcapsimage
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float: left;
font-size: 90px;
line-height: 100px;
padding-top: 1px;
margin-top: .1em;
margin-right: .09em;
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Seems this eBook is now using a dropcap graphic image instead of a larger letter for the first letter of the first paragraph in a chapter.
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