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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Scribus mailing list > > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
