On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:40:42 -0400 Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com> dijo:
>2010/4/6 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > >> On 04/06/2010 02:10 PM, a.l.e wrote: >> >>> >>> still, scribus drop caps only support one single character... so no >>> chance to put "Q&A" in the drop cap. >You could also create or modify a font in order to have this "Q&A" >group made into one single letter. It would be a lot easier to do the Q&A as a separate text frame and set it inline. Modifying a font is not simple unless you are familiar with the process (and I'm not). Greg said: >> I presumed that one paragraph would have the Q, another the A. How does that get "Q&A" into the beginning of a paragraph? a.l.e. said >but this last issue will featured in our bug tracker very soon :-) > >no, it's already there: >http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=7587 I note that the bug or feature request was filed nearly a year and a half ago and there seems to have been no action. The person posting that bug/request mentioned the need for two characters in Spanish, but in English we need it too. For example, what if the paragraph starts with a quote? For example: "Yes, my dear" he said obediently. Just having the quote mark as a drop cap would look ridiculous. When this thread started I was surprised that Scribus can do only the initial letter. (I don't use drop caps often.) I think even OOo can do multiple characters in a drop cap paragraph. I wonder how much work it would be to add the feature.
