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ETA I'm afraid i posted this in entirely the wrong place! I'm having a problem with drop caps in Affinity Pub 2: The drop cap (using the paragraph style and a character style) does not align properly with the top of the text in the first line of the paragraph. It sits on the correct baseline, but the top of the character is below the body text ascenders. I am aware that in many fonts, the top of the uppercase letters is actually lower than some lower case ascenders, but it seems more pronounced in Affinity than in InDesign. I tried scaling the drop cap character style, but this did not seem to have any effect. I could make it work by applying the scaling directly to an individual character, but as part of the drop cap character style, it did not seem to work. I did a comparison with InDesign to demonstrate what I mean: I have not tweaked the positioning or other aspects of the styles in either program, it has never been necessary in ID. The ID sample is first, the second paragraph is especially bad in Affinity, where the bar of the T is on a level with the baseline, the drop cap is in a font called Cicero