<span class=\"firstcharacter\"><\/strong>T<\/span><\/strong>his is my first sentence.<\/p>\n\n This chapter will cover:<\/p>\n Dropcaps are a traditional, decorative element that have been used in manuscripts for centuries. They are still a common device in some print books, but are a little more challenging in digital formats. This is because they work best with a fixed layout, where font sizes and page structures will remain constant. In contrast, digital formats are built to be responsive to user settings (whether increasing the font size on an e-reader or resizing the window of a webpage), meaning a dropcap can go awry and look poorly styled very easily.<\/p>\n As a result, many e-readers (particularly Kindle) do not support dropcaps in ebooks, so if you select a theme that indicates that it is styled with a dropcap, be aware that it will\u00a0not display in your ebook output. In addition to this, Pressbooks does not support dropcaps in the web version of your book, so you will not see one when you use the web preview option. The most reliable use of dropcaps is in the PDF export.<\/p>\n Several themes in Pressbooks offer a dropcap style. These are:<\/p>\n Two other themes also have an optional dropcap style that can be added using the method explained in the next section. These are:<\/p>\n In some cases, the dropcap will not appear automatically in your PDF or ebook outputs. There are a few things that can cause this:<\/p>\n If your dropcap isn’t appearing automatically, or you’d like to add it somewhere else in your text (e.g. after a section break) you can easily add it by following the steps below:<\/p>\n <span class=”firstcharacter”><\/strong>T<\/span><\/strong>his is my first sentence.<\/p>\n\n \t
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Dropcaps in Different Formats<\/h2>\n
Which Themes Offer Dropcaps for Print Outputs?<\/h2>\n
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Adding Dropcaps Manually<\/h2>\n
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