Emphasize first line of paragraph in LaTeX

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Changing the style of the first typeset line of a paragraph

Trying to find out how to emphasize the line of text automatically. The issue here is that I have no idea where the line would break.

Ideally it would be start paragraph with \sl and then insert \rm upon first line break.

For now I manually make something like \def\\{\break\rm} and inserting \\\ after a certain word in the beginning of paragraph, manually trying to choose minimal first line looseness.

Would be nice if parshape supported that, so we could make

\parshape=N [indent_1] [width_1] [modifier_1] [indent_2] etc...

Or if there would be something like "everyline", similar to everypar.

Does anybody have an idea?

Don't use \sl or \rm in modern LaTeX documents! use \sffamily, \rmfamily or better \textsf{...} and \textrm{...} instead. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/516/2975 for an explanation. — Martin Scharrer, Apr 29 '11 at 14:26
Rather than highlighting the first line, have you considered highlighting the first idea, as expounded under \newthought on ~page 21 of the tufte-latex example book, or by using the \(sub)paragraph{} commands? — Brent.Longborough, Apr 29 '11 at 14:55
Martin - well, thanks. Mostly used tex before, but tired of its low-level nature. — mikalai, Apr 29 '11 at 15:50
Brent - that's exactly what I did before with lettrine package - dropped capital followed by two or three slanted words. But after that I started wondering how to do something like to "The Wizard Knight" http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5094/5488837854_d3e6a68d88_z.jpg — mikalai, Apr 29 '11 at 15:57
Yes - completely the same issue. Should I remove this question? — mikalai, Apr 29 '11 at 16:21

Emphasize first line of paragraph in LaTeX

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