I'm trying to create drop caps with the lettrine
package, and I'm running into trouble when the first paragraph is too short. It appears that the package only indents the paragraph where it appears, with all lines on subsequent paragraphs being unaffected.
Here's a MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\begin{document}
\lettrine[lines=3]{T}{his} is a short paragraph.
This is a longer one, which fills all the lines taken up by the large letter, but unfortunately is not properly indented to accommodate that letter.
\end{document}
This yields the following bad result:
One solution would be to remove the paragraph break and instead use \\ \hspace*{\parindent}
. Is there a more elegant, semantic solution?
\prevgraf
)lettrine
package is to go rather deep into apples-to-oranges-comparison territory. My comment was aimed at a much more modest level, i.e., it was meant to address what can be done with LaTeX and, in particular, thelettrine
package. I thought this was obvious; however, apparently this wasn't the case. I'm truly sorry for having misled you and for having wasted your time.