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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dropping.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dropping.html deleted file mode 100644 index fbb4ff1d93b..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dropping.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label dropping</title> -</head><body> -<h3>Big letters at the start of a paragraph</h3> -<p/>A common style of typesetting, now seldom seen except in newspapers, -is to start a paragraph (in books, usually the first of a chapter) -with its first letter set large enough to span several lines. -<p/>This style is known as “dropped capitals”, or (in French) -«lettrines», -and TeX’s primitive facilities for hanging indentation make its -(simple) implementation pretty straightforward. -<p/>The <i>dropping</i> package does the job simply, but has a curious -attitude to the calculation of the size of the font to be used for the -big letters. Examples appear in the package documentation, so before -you process the <code>.dtx</code>, the package itself must already be -installed. Unfortunately, <i>dropping</i> has an intimate relation -to the set of device drivers available in an early version of the -LaTeX graphics package, and it cannot be trusted to work with -modern offerings such as PDFTeX, VTeX or DVIpdfm, let -alone such modernisms as XeTeX. As a result, the package is widely -deprecated, nowadays. -<p/>The more recent <i>lettrine</i> package is generally more reliable. -It has a well-constructed array of options, and an impressive set of -examples adds to the package’s document. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>dropping</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dropping.zip">macros/latex/contrib/dropping</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dropping/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dropping.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>lettrine</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine.zip">macros/latex/contrib/lettrine</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lettrine.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dropping">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dropping</a> -</body> |