Bill Bryson's book, The lost continent: travels in small-town America has an unusual first paragraph opening style. It has the equivalent of a long equal sign, followed by the first three words in small caps.
A typical opening chapter is shown below:
If you observe the two lines are exactly drawn at an ex
height. What is a good way to define a macro for this in LateX? As I was in mathmode tonight, I tried the code below, which of course is not working properly.
\def\lettrinerule{$=\!=\!=\!=\!=\!=\!=\!=$ }
\lettrinerule{\scshape i drove on}, without
I am also interested to hear of any other books using unusual first paragraph openings, other than drop caps.