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HOW? It looks to me like the "OW" is as tall as other capital letters in the text. —Spangineer^wp (háblame) 13:55, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

I think conceptually this is a small-caps word in larger text with a drop-cap, rather than an all-caps word with a dropcap. I was more interested in capturing that, than in matching the visual effect exactly. If you don't agree I'm happy to revert and refrain. Hesperian 14:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

By the way on my browser the "OW" is as tall as other capital letters in the text, in both examples. Hesperian 14:09, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Strange. Looking at it in Chrome and IE 8 shows ow != OW (by about 25% of the letter height), but in Firefox they're the same. In all three browsers, however, the drop initial spans three lines rather than two (as is {{dropinitial}} default and as is shown in the text). This last issue could be addressed by adding a parameter to {{dropinitial}}, but that makes the solution even more complex.

Your conceptual argument makes sense, except that the first word of a chapter is now "larger" than all others (via {{larger}}), so I'm not sure this is an improvement. Anyway, there are so many works that have this type of formatting; it seems strange to implement something that is more complex (three templates rather than one) and less faithful (at least for some major browsers). I'm not invested in this work, so I don't really care, but I certainly wouldn't want this to become standard practice. —Spangineer^wp (háblame) 15:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

I've reverted myself for now. Hesperian 23:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)