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Is

really closer to the format than

OW? It looks to me like the "OW" is as tall as other capital letters in the text. —Spangineerwp (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 (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. —Spangineerwp (háblame) 15:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I've reverted myself for now. Hesperian 23:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)