Exporting DropCaps to ePub from CS5.5?

I'm having trouble exporting DropCaps from CS5.5 to ePub. I've tried two ways: creating DropCaps as part of a paragraph style and, secondly, simply doing them as a character style. Neither way (nor a combination) show up when I export to epub. ... Any help would be appreciated. M.

Can you attach a sample page from the file you're working with? This is one of the things that I've found works pretty well in InDesign. I create a paragraph style that has a character style for the dropcap (don't just leave it set to None), but you still have to manually apply the style to the dropcap before exporting to EPUB. But I bet you've already gotten an answer about this one.

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