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Old 03-21-2012, 08:35 PM   #1
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Keeping small caps when converting from sigil to calibre

I wanted to make the titles of my chapters all capitals but with each letter after the first one slightly smaller. To achieve this in sigil I manually added <small> around the letters I wanted to make smaller.

(from this website: http://cameronchapman.com/ebook-form...e-easy-way.htm)

It works out fine in sigil and when I check it on adobe, but when I covert it in calibre the tags disappear.
Does anyone know why?
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Old 03-21-2012, 09:49 PM   #2
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I wanted to make the titles of my chapters all capitals but with each letter after the first one slightly smaller. To achieve this in sigil I manually added <small> around the letters I wanted to make smaller.

(from this website: http://cameronchapman.com/ebook-form...e-easy-way.htm)

It works out fine in sigil and when I check it on adobe, but when I covert it in calibre the tags disappear.
Does anyone know why?
I believe the use of the tag is deprecated.

better to use styles in the stylesheet

<h2>C<span class="step1">hapter</span><h/2>


.step1 {font-size: 95%}


Or were you trying for a progressively smaller
<h2>C<span class="step1">h<span class="step1">a<span class="step1">p<span class="step1">t<span class="step1">e<span class="step1">r</span></span></span></span></span></span><h/2>
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Old 03-21-2012, 10:25 PM   #3
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Ducky:

In either event, those chapter heads will NOT WORK in Nook. Trust me, we've tried; but you cannot do a viable, non-breaking (non-hyphenated, IOW) smallcaps header with a slightly larger first letter for Nook. Not a'tall.

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Ducky:

In either event, those chapter heads will NOT WORK in Nook. Trust me, we've tried; but you cannot do a viable, non-breaking (non-hyphenated, IOW) smallcaps header with a slightly larger first letter for Nook. Not a'tall.

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Old 03-22-2012, 02:23 PM   #5
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I believe the use of the tag is deprecated.
AFAIK it's valid xhtml 1.1
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Old 03-22-2012, 02:39 PM   #6
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AFAIK it's valid xhtml 1.1
and valid in EPUB2, EPUB3, HTML4.01, & HTML5. <small> is not going away anytime soon.

It may be that it is not supported, at least by major reader software, inside of heading tags. The spec's, specifically EPUB3, list it as being a text level tag.
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and valid in EPUB2, EPUB3, HTML4.01, & HTML5. <small> is not going away anytime soon.

It may be that it is not supported, at least by major reader software, inside of heading tags. The spec's, specifically EPUB3, list it as being a text level tag.
Thanks for clarification, I wasn't quite sure.

... and I use it within headings often ...

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Thanks for clarification, I wasn't quite shure.

... and I use it withing headings often ...
Support for it in headings seems to be a bit mixed. I did a quick experiment using <H1> heading. Using <small> worked in Sigil and ADE (Windows). Using <span class="small"> also worked in both when I had this in my CSS:

Code:
.small {
  font-size: 75%;
  }
When converted to MOBI using KindleGen (via Kindle Previewer 2), <small> worked on both the MOBI (display matched in Previewer & on a K3) and KF8 (tested in Previewer only) partitions although the size change in the MOBI portion was very slight. The <span class="small"> version worked on both partions with a larger size change.

When converted to MOBI using calibre 0.8.3 neither method worked, although the span method worked, with a much larger size change, when the CSS was:

Code:
.small {
  font-size: x-small;
  }
This 3rd version also worked Sigil and ADE/Win and with the KindleGen conversion. Perhaps the first <span> method may have worked in the calibre conversion if the size change had been larger; I didn't take the test that far.
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small does not mean smaller. It is a font size so if small is already the size this setting to small would not change anything. If you want smaller then say smaller.

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