Drop caps, running headers and page numbers: how to add them to your book

Ask for it in the chat and Gutter makes the first letter of each chapter bigger. By default it spans three lines of text; you can ask for a subtler one (2 lines) or a bigger one (4), and change its color or font.

It skips chapters that start with an em dash, quotation marks, an opening “¿” or a number, where it would look off.

Ask for a running header and choose what it shows: the title, the author, or both, alternating on even and odd pages. The classic publishing style is the author on even pages and the title on odd pages, and that's what Gutter does if you just say “title and author.”

It doesn't appear on chapter opening pages, just like in any book. You can change the size, italics, color and font.

Yes. The running header is always placed inside the KDP safe zone: at least 0.25 inches from the edge, or 0.375 inches if your book has bleed. If your top margin is too small for it to fit, Gutter increases it just enough and lets you know in the chat.

The page number (or folio) always goes in the footer, and you can choose: center, left, right, outside corner (right on odd pages and left on even pages) or none. You can also change its style (“12” or “-12-”) and its size.

The title page, copyright page and blank pages don't get a number.