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-<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 &#8220;dropped capitals&#8221;, or (in French)
-&laquo;lettrines&raquo;,
-and TeX&#8217;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&#8217;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>
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