apollo@ecf.utoronto.ca (Vince Pugliese) (01/10/90)
one of the guys is trying to pull off the following effect: ***** hrough blackest day, * Through darkest night, * Let no evil escape my sight * For those who worship evil's might * Beware my power Green Lantern`s light! any ideas as to how to do this? macros?? thanks in advance vince apollo@ecf.toronto.edu
chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) (01/10/90)
In article <1990Jan9.180731.25450@ecf.utoronto.ca> apollo@ecf.utoronto.ca (Vince Pugliese) writes: >one of the guys is trying to pull off the following effect: > >***** hrough blackest day, > * Through darkest night, > * Let no evil escape my sight > * For those who worship evil's might > * Beware my power >Green Lantern`s light! There is a `drop capital' style file in the Clarkson collection (`drop.sty'). Please be careful with it. Drop capitals can make text very hard to read; they are hard to get right. Note also the following comment in drop.sty: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % DROP.DOC <February 17, 1988> % Macro for dropping and enlarging the first letter(s) of a paragraph. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % Macro written by David G. Cantor, and published Fri, 12 Feb 88, in % TeXhax, 1988 #16. % Internet: dgc@math.ucla.edu % UUCP: ...!{ihnp4, randvax, sdcrdcf, ucbvax}!ucla-cs!dgc % % Modified for use with LaTeX by Dominik Wujastyk, February 17, 1988 % Internet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu % Bitnet: dow@harvunxw.bitnet %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % In my opinion (DW) there are no fonts available in the standard % TeX/LaTeX set that are ideal for this use, unless you go down to 9pt or % 8pt for your text face, and this is too small. If you have Metafont you % should consider generating a cmr17 font at a magstep of two (about 25pt) % or three (about 30pt), or even more, depending on the point size of your % main text. Why not go the whole hog and design some really fancy % capitals from scratch! -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
wsineel@lso.win.tue.nl (e.vriezekolk) (01/11/90)
In article <1990Jan9.180731.25450@ecf.utoronto.ca> apollo@ecf.utoronto.ca (Vince Pugliese) writes: > >one of the guys is trying to pull off the following effect: > >***** hrough blackest day, > * Through darkest night, > * Let no evil escape my sight > * For those who worship evil's might > * Beware my power >Green Lantern`s light! > I am using the following LaTeX-macro: \newskip\@droplen \setlength{\@droplen}{-\baselineskip} \newcommand{ \Dropcap}[1]{ \par\noindent\settowidth{\hangindent}{\Huge #1}% \hangafter=-2\hbox to 0pt{\hskip-\hangindent% \raisebox{\@droplen}[0pt][0pt]{\Huge #1}\hfill}% \ignorespaces} I hope I made no typing errors here. The only problem is that the biggest character (\Huge in LaTeX) is as high as two lines of text in the 10pt style. This macro only looks fine in a 10pt text. The above example would be: : : \Dropcap{T}hrough blackest day,.... (rest of paragraph) I hope this can help you. Eelco Vriezekolk (wsineel@lso.win.tue.nl)