ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (04/10/91)
A TeX Cutesy is a fragment of TeX which is relatively general: it
can be used in writing many a document. A beautifully crafted
{\tt manual.sty} is not a TeX Cutesy because it helps you
write better manuals, it is not a generally reusable fragment of
code.
Here is one I picked off comp.text.tex long ago:
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\def\bigfirstletter#1#2{{\noindent
\setbox0\hbox{\Huge #1}\setbox1\hbox{#2}\setbox2\hbox{(}%
\count0=\ht0\advance\count0 by\dp0\count1\baselineskip
\advance\count0 by-\ht1\advance\count0 by\ht2
\dimen1=.5ex\advance\count0 by\dimen1\divide\count0 by\count1
\advance\count0 by1\dimen0\wd0
\advance\dimen0 by.25em\dimen1=\ht0\advance\dimen1 by-\ht1
\global\hangindent\dimen0\global\hangafter-\count0
\hskip-\dimen0\setbox0\hbox to\dimen0{\raise-\dimen1\box0\hss}%
\dp0=0in\ht0=0in\box0}#2}
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Now if you \input this guy, then you get to say
\bigfirstletter String
and the S will come out in Huge.
Do you have cutesies like this?
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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
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