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The lettrine package lets your add drop caps at the beginning of paragraphs.

The lettrine package lets your add drop caps at the beginning of paragraphs.

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What does "\lettrine" do?

I have seen the command a few times and I want to know what \lettrine does and whether you have to use a package in order for it to work.
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Starting a paragraph with a big letter

I want to type my thesis with this style. How can I do this in latex?
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How can I make lettrine align flushly with the text?

I am using lettrine to create drop caps. However, this always creates a typographical…
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size and alignment of quotation mark with lettrine

The documentation of lettrine describes using \ante= for quotation marks before dropped capitals. This produces a quotation mark of the same size as in normal…
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Using Lettrine with short paragraphs

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…
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lettrine with image

Working with lettrine in a probably not intended kind leads me to a problem. When running the following example you can see that the two lines of text are not starting at the same position. Ugly! I hope and believe that there is a workaround to get…
Jürgen
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Disable the function of the lettrine command

I would like to have two versions of my document. The differences depend on whether kpfonts is loaded or not. If it's not loaded I want to disable the\lettrine command and the arguments in the command should appear as normal text. Below is a MWE. …
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Lettrine doesn't care of lower size

I'm currently using lettrine package and when I set a lower size bigger than zero it seems doesn't work. This is my tex…
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Insert paragraph numbers into page margin

I want to insert numbers into the margin next to paragraphs, in a way that the number does not impact the text of the document. I want the first letter of each line to be flush on the left. I am doing…
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Forcing a lettrine to appear within a shifted block of bold text

I am trying to compile an order of service which includes blocks of bold text which are indented from the actual margin. When I use a lettrine with normal text in this format it appears as expected (i.e. embedded within the text) but when I use it…
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Overlapping lettrines fail with optfile.cfl

I've modified the code found here that uses rlap to write two lettrines, one atop the other. The font I want to use happens to allow for three colors, so I've nested another one on there. It works without a supplemental lettrine.cfg file. It works…
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Space letter second line lettrine package

I am using the lettrine package. I am struggling with the options influencing the distance of the second line. How do I decrease the space where the red arrow points at and move the text closer to the T? Thank…
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Understanding lettrine.sty and the way to configure it

The following code has two paragraphs with a lettrine. Why do they format differently? The second one has the desired code (with a configuration command), but only the first produces the desired output (but it would require to add a long string of…
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Can I use lettrine to make only first letter capital letter

How can I make a book where every sections first letter is bigger than others? I tried to make the following book format but the text looks like SUmmer rather than…
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How do I make lettrine style drop-caps float into the previous line and paragraph, when it appears at the bottom of a page or column?

Using lettrine to print chapter numbers, I ended up with a chapter number at the end of a paragraph that was printed hanging over the bottom of the left paragraph, and a space in the top of the next paragraph. I would like to move the chapter number…
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