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DROP CAPS: The drop cap is aligned to the middle of the text. Subsequent lines are not indented.

  

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title></title>
<style type="text/css" media="Screen">
* .myDrop {
  font-size: 40px;
  line-height: 0.8em;
  font-weight: bold;
  vertical-align: middle;
  background-color: red;
  padding: 0 2px;
}


</style>
</head>
<body>
<p><span class="myDrop">A</span>bc this is a test. </p> 

</body>
</html>








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