Description: Drop Caps seems to lack a "first word" capability. We have a "number of characters" (upper limit 9). But that is fixed. Such a style spans multiple short words. Yet it cuts off in the middle of words of sesquipedalian longitudinal loquacity. If a user or house style wants a Drop Cap of more than a letter, then "first word" would surely be a highly likely next choice. Steps to Reproduce: Feature request: not applicable. Actual Results: Feature request: not applicable. Expected Results: See description. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: See description.
Reasonable, though unclear if this could impact our OOXML compatibility. ODF 1.4 19.496 style:length [1] suggests we should implement a 'word:' grouping, rather than just the integer count of characters. Making this already an implementation error? +1 =-ref-= [1] https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/OpenDocument-v1.4-part3-schema.html#attribute-style_length
I just want to confirm — is the proposed feature this one? Paragraph > Drop Caps > Settings > Whole word https://help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-GB/text/swriter/01/05030400.html
(In reply to Takenori Yasuda from comment #2) > I just want to confirm... Indeed, this seems to be the only reasonable but existing property for the request. Drop caps can have a _height_ of double to 9 lines, can span a fix width of 1 to 9 characters or take the whole word. I see no room for improvements. If you have a real use case, please tell us. Something like "I want to achieve <foo> by doing <bar> but <baz> hinders me." The more concrete example the better we can advice.
(In reply to David Lee from bug 170006 comment #0) > From https://creativepro.com/designing-lead-ins/ This is a use case. And now it's clear what you mean with "number of words with drop caps": you do some lead-in to a text. I'm against more complexity and recommend to use manually applied character styles for this purpose.