On 5/18/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> 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.
mmm.... I had this problem, this is a solution I didn't think of! thanks for sharing. Interestingly, one can display > a letter that has been partially shifted out of its text frame(!). > > Anyone else have a better solution? unfortunately no! Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060519/90351558/attachment.html
