Description: From https://creativepro.com/designing-lead-ins/ ---------- "There are a number of typographic techniques that can help draw attention to the content of an article, book, web page, or any important text. The use of a lead-in is one of them. A lead-in is the setting of the beginning of text in a different style or manner from that which follows it." ---------- My own use-case is the absolute requirement for a relatively simple styling: the first letter of each verse in a collection of poems. At a minimum, this is "bold" (each poem is alphabetic acrostic, with successive verses beginning A, B, C, ...). Some additional flexibility (e.g. colour) would also be useful. But this opens a more general issue. In addition to my "first letter" example, several other styling examples exist across literature: "first word"; "first n words", etc. And the manner of user-desired styling can vary; my example was bold; another common one is small-caps. When the house-style is "first n words", the combination of bold plus SmallCaps seems quite frequent. I see that LO Writer offers one specific case: "Drop Caps" (with "first character" and "first letter" options). But I suggest it is highly desirable that we offer a wider range. Naturally, this proposed development would need to consider the interaction with the existing "Drop Caps" mechanism. Thoughts? Offer! If we can get agreement-in-principle, I'd be happy to try to take this forward. Indeed, as I type, I'm setting up VirtualBox to give me a Linux-based VM on which I could then attempt to download and build LO with a view to possible draft coding of the feature. Actual Results: This is a feature request, rather than a bug report. Expected Results: This is a feature request, rather than a bug report. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: See also: * https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/first-letter-styling/129315