{drop-cap} An initial is a letter at the beginning of a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. A drop cap is a special kind of initial, but this tag is used for all questions about initials.
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What style/font is this?
Does anyone know how to create numbering for Theorem/lemma/… like this one in the image below, also any idea about the font name?
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What will the tex command for the following image? [duplicate]
How can I produce the below image in LaTEX. To be specific look at the starting word of the paragraph. I dont want to produce that word, but the format in which the paragraph is produced looks nice. I ...
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How to increase the size of first character in a chapter (Drop-Caps)
I would like to know how I can increase the size of the first alphabet of first paragraph of a chapter using (Xe/La/?)tex. Please look at the image shown below.
What is such an effect called? How ...
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What style is this thesis?
Does anyone know how to reproduce the headers and the chapter/section styles of this thesis?
http://www.stat.washington.edu/~ebfox/publications/ebfox_thesis.pdf
To be more specific, how does one ...
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Automating the height of a drop cap initial
How can I modify the following macro to automatically have the initial with the height indicated in the picture?
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\RequirePackage{tikz}
\newlength\CLett% Nuova ...
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How does one implement drop caps in plain TeX?
How might one implement a simple drop cap in plain TeX without additional packages?
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Preventing drop caps from overlapping next paragraph
Using the lettrine package, big drop caps can sometimes overlap next paragraphs, as show here:
How can I do it so that following paragraphs are built around the lettrine instead of overlapping it?
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Illuminated manuscripts & LaTeX [closed]
How can I produce Illuminated manuscripts (something like this)?
Are there existing examples of illuminated manuscripts made with latex, or websites that provide initials or decorations with this ...
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renderize yfonts without the pixels signs
how can i renderize this initials without the pixels signs but like the normal font?
http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/baroqueinitials/
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Problem with the dropping package?
I have a problem using the dropping package. It says that the file dropping.sty is not found.
What should I do to solve this problem?
Is there another package, instead of the dropping one, performs ...
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Where to put initials (a.k.a. drop caps) in an interview?
I am typesetting an interview in a special issue of a journal. In this issue, we begin each article with a drop cap and a few words in small caps (using the lettrine package). My question is: from ...
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How can I create documents in LaTeX using a calligraphic first letter for chapters?
Books often have a special letter (often spanning two lines) at the beginning of chapters. How can I create this in LaTeX?
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How to change the text position
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage{yfonts}[1998/10/03]
\begin{document}
\frakfamily\Large\fraklines
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Wrap text around symbol
How is it possible to wrap text around a symbol? This is my code so far:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{xcolor}
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\usemodule and ConTeXt
I can't seem to use modules in ConTeXt:
\usemodule[lettri]
\starttext
\lettrine{T}{his is a test}
\stoptext
When I run texexec on this, I get:
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \lettrine
...
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Make apostrophe closer to letter
I am using the lettrine package to typeset capitals. When there is an apostrophe with a capital L, the spaces look quite ugly. I would like to achieve something like the following:
I've already set ...
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Lettrine package and the letter L
I am using the package lettrine to typeset capitals. In the documentation there are some special parameters to get the text closer in certain letter. For example, with the A you can set up lettrine to ...
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Space after lettrine
When using the lettrine package, there are often additional spaces after the small caps:
It can get even bigger than that actually. It seems to me that this is because lettrine uses an mbox to ...
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Initial with wrapfigure — other idea?
The following minimal example shows how I'd like to make Initials in my document.
I make it with wrapfigure, but it seems to be hard to adjust manually or measure and adjust the height and width ...
