[Scribus] Drop caps revisited

[Peter Dinnan]

On Friday 19 May 2006 14:03, Peter Dinnan wrote:

> 5) When in the story editor highlight the first few words on the first
> lines and apply the style - the dropcap will be applied to the first letter
> only
>
err, That should be first line (not lines)    ;-)

Peter


>
> On Friday 19 May 2006 12:32, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > After doing some experimentation, it seems there is only one practical
> > way to do drop caps in Scribus.
> >
> > I attempted to do this by simply highlighting the first letter,
> > enlarging it, then shifting its baseline. Unfortunately, this leads to
> > the letter overlapping the letter in the line below it, a visually very
> > unpleasing result, even when it doesn't literally overlap the letter.
> >
> > What does work with some fidgeting is to create a separate text frame
> > with the first letter, overlapping the rest of the text, clicking Text
> > Flows Around Frame in Properties, but then, importantly, you have to
> > also shift the baseline of the letter downward. The reason for this is
> > that there is a space below the baseline that the frame has to have to
> > display the letter, so if you don't shift the baseline, there is too
> > much empty space beneath the dropped cap. Interestingly, one can display
> > a letter that has been partially shifted out of its text frame(!).
> >
> > Anyone else have a better solution?
> >
> > Greg
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