kalita@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Jugal Kolita) (08/12/89)
Hi! I wonder if someone has written the programs required to print the first letter in the beginning of an article or paper in a large font as they do in many books. Everything following the first letter of the first word is printed in normal size and font. I think they are called dropcaps or something similar. ---------------- _____ | his is the type of format I want to | have for some articles of a | document I am trying to print. The rest of the lines will start from the beginning of the line as these last two lines do. ------------------ If someone has written the program to do so, I will appreciate if s/he sends me a copy. Thanks in advance. Jugal
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) (08/13/89)
In article <13654@netnews.upenn.edu> kalita@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Jugal Kolita) writes: | I wonder if someone has written the programs required to print the | first letter in the beginning of an article or paper in a large font | as they do in many books. A style file called drop.doc was published in TeXhax v88 #16. It does just what you want, but finding a good font for the big character isn't that easy. -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (08/15/89)
In article <1333@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes: >A style file called drop.doc was published in TeXhax v88 #16. It does >just what you want, but finding a good font for the big character isn't >that easy. A LaTeX version (drop.sty) is available from the Clarkson style archives. Not only is it hard to find a good font, some of us find drop capitals to be a nuisance in general. They look pretty, but they can often hamper readability. (To see what I mean, take a look at a recent issue or two of Unix/World: the drop capitals are too close to the following text, leading to something that looks like |\ | ow if you thought it was | \ | ever possible to `scan' | \ | or `skip' or in some way | \| eat up the . . . which is supposed to read `Now if ... was ever ... `scan' or `skip' but---to me, at least---keeps reading `Now if ... was never ... `scan' nor `skip'....) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (08/15/89)
In article <19089@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote: >... some of us find drop capitals to be a nuisance in general. ... >To see what I mean, take a look at a recent issue or two of Unix/World: Make that `Unix Review'. (Somehow I always get these mixed up.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris