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27 Feb
2005
27 Feb
'05
11:51 a.m.
auto-lettrines (dropcaps etc) are kind of complex in the sense that it's not trivial to pick up the first 'something' in a paragraph in a robust way [we may want some extension to tex for that (so we have something to discuss during our trip to eurotex -)
Hans
If I may chime in: Also, automated drop caps (if that is what you refer to) is not a feasible way to go if high typographic quality is important. Different typefaces and different characters need different level of protruding into the left margin, as well as other actions of tweaking. As an example, the automated drop caps in some of the more famous DTP programs are useless. Best regards, Mats Broberg