drop caps in first paragraph? aligning images?

[Robert Nagle]

Is there a way in docbook to mark your text in your chunked HTML
output so that the first letter of the first paragraph in a chapter
will use dropcaps (through a css class, I mean)?
(Here's a css way to do it http://tinsology.net/2009/06/css-drop-cap-effect/ )

I see that you can set image alignment for graphics inside imagedata
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ImageAlignment.html

However, I see that doing that will insert a  style="text-align:right"
into the div element. I don't understand; why does text-align: right
apply to the img element as well?  (this may be a CSS question, not a
docbook question).

   <div class="mediaobject" style="text-align: right"><a
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon" id="MilenaJesenska"/><img
src="images/milena.jpg" style="text-align: right" alt="Milena
Jesenska, journalist and girlfriend of Kafka who corresponded with him
frequently."/></div>



Robert Nagle

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[Robert Nagle]

I just wanted to say, I figured out the answer to my own question.

http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/phrase.html

Specifying a role attribute for phrase gives you a custom css class
inside a span tag. So I could just do

<para><phrase role="dropcap">W</phrase>e the people </para>

Gosh, knowing this information, I suddenly feel a exhilarating surge
of power....

This also solves the image problem-- (I wanted to make css
customizations to selected images; now I can just put the
inlinemediaobject inside a phrase tag).


rj


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Is there a way in docbook to mark your text in your chunked HTML
output so that the first letter of the first paragraph in a chapter
will use dropcaps (through a css class, I mean)?
(Here's a css way to do it http://tinsology.net/2009/06/css-drop-cap-effect/ )


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