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Using the lettrine package, big drop caps can sometimes overlap next paragraphs, as show here:

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How can I do it so that following paragraphs are built around the lettrine instead of overlapping it?

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What does your lettrine definition for this typesetting look like? – Werner Jul 29 '11 at 23:01
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Don't start a new paragraph: \\\indent. – egreg Jul 29 '11 at 23:01
You can do some tricks with redefining \par using \prevgraf (there is a code somewhere in The TeXbook, but I don't have it at home). Note that this might not be robust with respect to itemize or other atypical things. If you don't have access to The TeXbook, just write a comment here and I will post working code tomorrow. – mbork Jul 29 '11 at 23:16
Ok egreg, your trick does it (although I'd like something cleaner if possible). – ℝaphink Jul 30 '11 at 5:16
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@mbork lettrine already uses \parshape, so it's not compatible with list based environments. The code might be something like {\par\xdef\kpd{\the\prevgraf}}\everypar={\prevgraf\kpd\everypar{}, perhaps with some other code to keep the previous contents of \everypar. I'd say that \\\indent is more economic. – egreg Jul 30 '11 at 8:25
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@egreg's suggestion works fine. So since I already had a command to typeset for each paragraph (\bverse), I made a new command (\bversenopar) and didn't skip a line:

\newcounter{verse}                                                              
\newcommand{\bverse}{%                                                          
  \addtocounter{verse}{1}                                                       
  \par\theverse~                                                                
}                                                                               

\newcommand{\bversenopar}{%                                                     
   \addtocounter{verse}{1}\\\indent\theverse~                                   
}

And it works fine:

no overlap

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Books like this need a wide amount of manual intervention. – egreg Jul 30 '11 at 8:22
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Yes indeed, but it's fun :-) I'm trying to get as close as possible to a 1564 French Bible. – ℝaphink Jul 30 '11 at 8:36

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