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HI Wendell,
This makes sense, and I'll stash it away for future use. In the end, after much work today, we determined that it's virtually impossible to decide where or when a drop-cap should appear without human intervention. Some texts begin with punctuation such as open quotes: should the quote be drop-capped, or the subsequent letter, and if the latter, what should happen to the quote? Some articles begin with a block-indented verse quotation; what then? In the end, we've decided to pollute our XML with an explicit <hi rend="DropCap">F</hi>irst word where we think it works best. Examining previous print editions of the journal we're now working on, I'm convinced that the actual texts were edited precisely to make their first sentences amenable to elegant drop-caps, since in every case they are unproblematic (whereas two out of the three articles marked up for our edition so far present difficulties). Cheers, Martin Wendell Piez wrote: Hi Martin,
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