Drop Caps Disappears

[Robertovr]

Hi everyone, I added Drop Caps to my eBook epub in Caliber and in View mode it looks good, but when I use Read mode Drop Caps disappears!
May someone teach me to fix it?
Thanks a lot!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Robertovr

Hi everyone, I added Drop Caps to my eBook epub in Caliber and in View mode it looks good, but when I use Read mode Drop Caps disappears!
May someone teach me to fix it?
Thanks a lot!

You are going to have to give a lot more information including the CSS and samples of your dropcap implementation to get a meaningful answer. If the book is not copyrighted or you have the rights to it, you could attach it to a message in this thread.

[theducks]

Also, Your viewer needs to honor (be set) to use Publishers styles.
But we really need to see snips of the code AND relevant stylesheet sections

[Robertovr]

Originally Posted by theducks

Also, Your viewer needs to honor (be set) to use Publishers styles.
But we really need to see snips of the code AND relevant stylesheet sections

Thanks both Doctype and Theducks!
I am attaching the information and samples to this message.
Wherever tip you have for me will be great.

[Robertovr]

Originally Posted by Robertovr

Thanks both Doctype and Theducks!
I am attaching the information and samples to this message.
Wherever tip you have for me will be great.

I am including other information in the attachment file.

[JSWolf]

Attach the screen caps. Putting them in a word processing document it not the way to show what you are trying to show. Your screen caps are too small as they are in the Word document and it too much hassle for us to make them larger. That's your job to make them clearly readable.

[theducks]

That hurt my old eyes.

I did not ask for a 'screen capture'. It is kinda hard to scroll, switch to the CSS

[Robertovr]

Originally Posted by theducks

That hurt my old eyes.

I did not ask for a 'screen capture'. It is kinda hard to scroll, switch to the CSS

Guys, I'm doing my best to follow your instructions and obtain your help. I attached a new image 250% bigger.
Even the old man that I am, are capable to read this letters, numbers and so on. So, I know You can do it too.
I apreciate your good will.

[DNSB]

Looking at your posts, a simple copy and paste of the CSS styles and HTML text would have been easier than your Word document.

As it is, I would suggest that you are not error checking your epub. Looking at where you show:

<p class="Capitular">

<p class="block14">Sofia estava consultando etc.

A <p> tag is not nestable. <p><p></p></p> is not a valid construct.

When I typed the above into an epub in Sigil and added the 2 </p>s, epubcheck threw the following error message:

Col: 20: ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file: element "p" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text, element "a", "abbr", "area", "audio", "b", "bdi", "bdo", "br", "button", "canvas", "cite", "code", "data", "datalist", "del", "dfn", "em", "embed", "epub:switch", "i", "iframe", "img", "input", "ins", "kbd", "label", "link", "map", "mark", "meta", "meter", "ns1:math", "ns2:svg", "object", "output", "picture", "progress", "q", "ruby", "s", "samp", "script", "select", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "template", "textarea", "time", "u", "var", "video" or "wbr" (with xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg") or an element from another namespace

If I modified the code to:

<p class="Capitular block14">Sofia estava consultando etc.</p>

the drop cap showed up. See attached image for what it looked like.

[JSWolf]

The problem with a drop cap is that it may look good on your setup, but it may not look good on my setup. I may want a different line height and/or a different font and so the drop cap doesn't work well. The thing to do is to just forget drop caps.

[Robertovr]

I want to thanks to DNSB for your good will to help me and congrats, him or her, I do not Know - for the correct solution for the problem that I presented.

[chaley]

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