On 08/23/2012 08:33 AM, Peter Nermander wrote: >> And I have one small question about how these features should interact >> between >> each other. > > I'm not sure what is the best way, but I am thinking that "bullets" > are (as far as I know) usually only one glyph, so drop caps could make > sense for them. But numbering can be more than one digit, so, how many > glyphs should be drop caps? > > I think that the most logical way is that drops caps always applies to > the first glyph only, no matter if it is manually written or generated > by some automatic mechanism. (Consider when Scribus get automatic > references, then a paragraph might start with some other automatically > generated text.) >
It seems to me that people who use drop caps typically overuse them. They really detract from reading, and when used in abundance become tedious. I would hope we don't encourage the use of bullets and drop caps together. Greg
