Oh, I'm sorry... obviously my translation is wrong (I'm from Germany). I'll try to describe what I wanted: In old books or tales, the first Letter (sometimes the first word) has a special look, e.g. made of trees, and takes several lines of regular text. This is called "initial" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial
In libreoffice (openoffice as well), this is possible by selecting a paragraph, then menu "format > paragraph". Then there is a tab, in german called "Initialen" where you activate it. If you do so, you get a gray background on the initial. The background of the whole paragraph as well as the bg of the single letter is set to "automatic", that is, no fill. In openoffice I can change the background manually to white, which partially resolves the problem: depending on the font, there is no gray bg left (e.g. Dejavu Serif) or there is still a gray line left (e.g. Vemana2000). As I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 on the machine I'm writing from, I can confirm that this also exists in Openoffice 3.2.0 Build 9483. I just activated english language for my menus... I'll log out and report back to get the exact menu/tab names. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778038 Title: gray background for "initial" letters -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
