Description: The attached screenshot demonstrates the Idea. It's not uncommon to use this kind of Drop Caps, so it's important to add this functionality to LO. Actual Results: Expected Results: Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info:
Created attachment 164641 [details] Example for "High Drop Caps"
(In reply to Clarc from comment #0) > Description: > The attached screenshot demonstrates the Idea. It's not uncommon to use this > kind of Drop Caps, so it's important to add this functionality to LO. What's the difference between high Drop Caps and just increase size of the first character?
(In reply to Dieter from comment #2) > What's the difference between high Drop Caps and just increase size of the > first character? Thank you for the question! 1. (As far as I know,) automating making the fist letter bigger isn't possible. Automating Drop Caps, on the other hand, is easy. For example, you can change your paragraph styles to always follow the order Heading 1 -> Drop Caps Paragraph -> Text Body. 2. If Quotation-Mark-compatibility gets added for Drop Caps (see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136049), Drop Caps will be needed to properly style quotation marks that are placed before the big letter. For example, I couldn't find a way to add am quotation mark (") in front (at the top left) of the Big letter without making it enormous as well. 3. Manually making the first Letter big might mess up line-spacing. (As can be seen in the [Example for "High Drop Caps"]-picture). This would mean, the writer needs to - again, manually - try to even out all the line-spacings. 4. Adding such a functionality to the Drop Caps-tab should be the most intuitive place for such an functionality. Those were a couple of reasons why this might be different and necessary.
The easiest (and probably most useful) implementation could be to add another Option below "Lines" and renaming the Lines-option: Height in Lines [ 3 |-|+] Protrusion into Text [ 2 |-|+] The above mentioned example would then produce the middle text in the following picture: https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/f61ec9299e5d39face7dd612074000df41b3e064/2372b/assets/images/blog/2017/initial-letter/sunken-raised-drop-caps-2240.jpg Height in Lines [ 3 |-|+] Protrusion into Text [ 3 |-|+] Would result in the right text in the picture and Height in Lines [ 3 |-|+] Protrusion into Text [ 1 |-|+] would be the left text. By default, Protrusion could always be set to be equal to [Height in Lines], if we want to avoid forcing users to set additional parameters.
> https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/f61ec9299e5d39face7dd612074000df41b3e064/2372b/assets/images/blog/2017/initial-letter/sunken-raised-drop-caps-2240.jpg 5. It might be impossible to achieve the middle text by simply changing the first character's size.
(In reply to Clarc from comment #5) > 5. It might be impossible to achieve the middle text by simply changing the > first character's size. You're right. So let's ask design-team
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 70180 ***