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• • August 11, 2016 at 2:05 pm #87371
    Matt Mayerchak

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    I’m using a 5-char drop cap to style the year and space following it for a section of Class Notes in a magazine. It works, but when the first character of the text following the year (not counting the space after the year) has a bold character style applied to it, the drop cap is 125% larger than when the character is normal. I actually want the larger size, but not all paragraphs begin with the bold character style, so I just want it to behave consistently.

    Why does the character style on the first character AFTER the drop cap change the size of the drop cap? I have been through nearly every option in the paragraph and character styles menus and can’t find something I can turn on or off to fix this.

    Anyone seen this before? Any ideas? Or other ways to style this? The client used to use anchored text boxes for the years, but I changed it because it’s faster to style them this way if I can make it work.

    Example can be seen here:

    https://s26.postimg.org/7q1mfap4p/Drop_Cap_problem.png

  • August 11, 2016 at 3:06 pm #87379
    David Blatner

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    I can’t replicate the problem, Matt. Does this happen for you on all documents (even new ones), or just the doc with the styles you’re using?

  • August 11, 2016 at 3:07 pm #87380
    Dwayne Harris

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    Since I don’t know how your character style is set for the drop cap–I’m guessing.

    Did you make sure that your character says “Roman” or “Regular” and is not blank (or just the font family or size showing)?

    I know I have to set up characters styles for my bullets for bulleted lists and make them roman & regular case. If not–if the first phrase is italic, the bullet turns into italic, if it’s a bold lead-in, the bullet turns bold. If small cap lead-ins, the bullet takes on the small caps character.

    That’s the only thing I can think of.

  • August 11, 2016 at 5:58 pm #87385
    Matt Mayerchak

    Participant

    I sent a file to David, in case he has a chance to try it.

    It’s a new document; I copied just one paragraph and the 2 character styles in use to a new file. I replaced the text with placeholder text and it all still works the same way.

    I checked to make sure the character styles (both the bold name and the drop cap) include font name, weight and size. I’ve checked baseline grid, hyphenation, kerning . . . optical margin alignment, scale for descenders, etc. Nothing I can find fixes it.

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