On 22-3-2012 16:44, James 'Twey' Kay wrote:
I have this problem too… most frustrating :-\ I guess the drop-cap is being counted as part of the line, and thereby increasing the line height.
better try: %D For the moment here: dropped caps redone. In addition to the %D parameters shown in the example you can use the \type {style} and %D more low level \type {font} keys to set up the font where %D the first one wins. If you don't like the behaviour you can always %D roll out your own command. %D %D \starttyping %D \placeinitial \input ward \par \input ward \par \placeinitial \input tufte %D %D \setupinitial %D [location=text, %D n=2, %D color=darkred, %D distance=-1em, %D hoffset=1em, %D voffset=-3ex, %D before=\blank] %D %D \placeinitial \input ward \par \input ward \placeinitial \input tufte %D \stoptyping (dropping caps is something that can interfere with anything else that synchronizes at the start of a paragraph) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------