Drop-kick the drop cap

[barbarienne]

It has been a week of bad drop-cap experiences.

A drop cap is when, at the start of a chapter, the first letter of the first paragraph is extra-large and hangs down two or more lines, forcing the text to indent.

Comments

[quarkwiz]

Oh gawd. There are many, many days where this is my LIFE. Soft returns and tabs and swashy uncials and all.

[barbarienne]

It's not your fault! Your publisher insists on drop caps in the designs. I'm with you: I like starting with dialogue, and my em-dash and ellipsis addiction is severe.

As much as I complain, the fact is that I get paid decently to do this stuff. As malkatsheva has often said to me, "If it was all beer and skittles, they wouldn't have to pay someone to do it."

[barbarienne]

Oh, and I should note, I reviewed the pages for design already, and in second pass they will fix the space next to the capital A drop caps (and one L, I think).