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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dropping.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dropping.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..019b45051fd --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dropping.html @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +<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 recent +offerings like PDFTeX, VTeX or DVIpdfm. +<p>On such occasions, the more recent <i>lettrine</i> package is more +likely to succeed. It has a well-constructed array of options, and +the examples (a pretty impressive set) come as a separate file in the +distribution (also available in PostScript, so that they can be viewed +without installing the package itself). +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>dropping</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dropping.zip">macros/latex/contrib/dropping</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dropping.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dropping/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>lettrine</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine.zip">macros/latex/contrib/lettrine</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine/">browse</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> |