[FM Discuss] Using drop-caps in FLOSS Manuals

[Lachlan Musicman]

lovely!

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:18, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you checked out the styled pages that the Rural Design Collective
> put together for my book you probably admired the drop caps that begin
> the first paragraph in each chapter.  I though these were done with
> image files but it turns out that you can do this with styles, like
> this:
>
> p.intro:first-letter {
>   display:block;
>   float:left;
>   border:3px solid #A64942;
>   padding:5px;
>   margin:4px 9px 4px 5px;
>   font-size:73px;
>   background-color: #FAD492;
>   font-style: normal;
>   color: #1C4501;
> }
>
> You need to make the first <p> tag on the page have a class like this:
>
> <p class="intro">
>
> I was able to get the drop caps into my PDF using a custom style
> sheet.  I wanted them to be in my web page as well, so I used a
> <style> tag to add the style at the top of the page.  The results can
> be seen here:
>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ReadingandSugar/Introduction
>
> If you run this through OBJAVI using the default style sheet the
> <style> in the page is ignored when creating a PDF.  You need to use a
> custom style sheet with the drop cap style included.
>
> While this effect may not be suitable for every FM the book I'm doing
> is about e-books so it's kind of appropriate.  Any thoughts?
>
> James Simmons
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