On 2 Nov 2006 at 7:57, Adrian Try wrote: ... > One final issue: short paragraphs. It seems that the height of the drop > cap is limited to the height of the paragraph. In other words, if you have > defined your drop cap to be five lines, but it is in a paragraph that is > only two lines high, your drop cap will be only two lines high. It would > be good if this was not the case!
What is the conventional thing to do if a paragraph is shorter than the height of the drop capital? You can't simply merge the /next/ para (or paras) to get the height - should the short para not be padded with blank lines to the required height? In which case, the present behaviour of ooo would be wrong -- at the very least, 'pad para to height' should then be an option under drop caps. But I really can't recall seeing a printed example :-( > > The only work around that I know of is to use soft returns (shift-Enter) > rather than hard returns (Enter) at the end of a short initial paragraph. > Writer will then consider both paragraphs being one, and the drop cap will > achieve its correct size. I normally hate manual formatting like this, but But that would not give the required appearance of the page anyway, surely? A paragraph is a paragraph, and successive ones would need their own drop cap - and what if several in a row are too short?? -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
