Index talk:Vanity Fair 1848.djvu

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Source Vanity Fair - A novel without a hero, 1848.

Request Ratification for (some) Chapter Titles

Several chapters of this work open with their initial sentences of the format (e.g. Chapter 3, Chapter 22 or Chapter 23 and others):

• an image incorporating the initial letter opening word of the opening sentence,
• (usually small-capped) remainder of initial word slightly intruding into above image area,
• remainder of opening paragraph is in "hanging indent" form and wraps to right of (and optionally below) above image.

Purely by experimentation, I have found I can achieve this effect adequately by encapsulating the image portion inside {{drop capital}}, and the following paragraph within {{hanging indent}}. I do not believe this part is in any way controversial.

However, to permit the lead line to intrude into the text area I have found the hanging indented paragraph needs to be further enclosed within an additional <div style="position:relative;">…</div> block. This certainly works in the case my browser (Firefox 19.0); however I do not know if this is standard behaviour, and even if it is why it works.

Could somebody else:

1. please verify these pages display acceptably on another browser;
2. if anybody can provide the technical background I for one would be interested.

MODCHK (talk) 21:22, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

All looks fine to me. There're a few chapters that don't have it set up correctly (they've just got a left-floating image, no dropcap etc.) so I'm going to go through and fix them up to conform to e.g.:

{{dropcap|[[File:Vanity Fair D025.png|left|250px|alt=W|W]]}}<div style="position:relative">{{hanging indent|0.5em|{{sc|hile}}
the present century was in its teens...
}}</div>

if no one minds? :-) — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 01:31, 23 November 2013 (UTC)