Description: Currently, Drop Caps can only be the size of the first paragraph. This is a problem if the first paragraph is shorter than your desired Drop Caps-size. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a Drop Caps text-style. Let's set them to Height: 3 Lines. 2. Write your Drop Caps-paragraph but end it after 1 or 2 lines. 3. The Drop Caps will stay tiny. Actual Results: See attached "Test-Screenshot"-picture. Expected Results: Drop Caps should always look the same, regardless of how long the first paragraph is. Following paragraphs should wrap around the Drop Caps letter(s), as though they were a picture, set to let text flow around it. (See "Proper-Caps"-picture) Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: As can be seen in the ""Workaround""-picture, you have one - sub-optimal - way to deal with the current Drop Caps: Create a manual line-break by using SHIFT+ENTER. However, this 1. Distorts the Text of the first line 2. Forces the second paragraph to use tje Drop Caps-style as well. 3. Therefor removes the usual styling of the second paragraph such as font, size, italics or indent. All of these would have to be corrected manually.
Created attachment 165115 [details] Test-Screenshot
Created attachment 165116 [details] "Workaround"
Created attachment 165117 [details] Proper-Caps
Confirmed, settings on the 'Paragraph...' dialog 'Drop Caps' panel do not support a drop cap higher than the line count of its paragraph. Even with a greater 'Lines' count the initial being used is scaled *only* to the height of the paragraph. Can work around by insertion of a manual line break prior to paragraph end.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #4) > Can work around by insertion of a manual line break prior to paragraph end. Exactly, that's what I wanted to address in 'Additional Info'. Unfortunately, this manual work-around has downsides as well. > As can be seen in the ""Workaround""-picture, you have one - sub-optimal - way > to deal with the current Drop Caps: Create a manual line-break by using > SHIFT+ENTER. > However, this > 1. Distorts the Text of the first line > 2. Forces the second paragraph to use tje Drop Caps-style as well. > 3. Therefor removes the usual styling of the second paragraph such as font, > size, italics or indent. > > All of these would have to be corrected manually.