🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.text
Article #4456

Re: troff .DC macro for drop caps, version 2.0

#4456
From: David Wolverton
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1988 15:19
28 lines
1183 bytes
I tried the drop-cap macro (version 2.0) that was just posted.
It puts the cap so that the base of the cap is aligned with the
last "indented" line of text, rather than the drop-cap design
I was expecting (top of cap aligned with top of first line of text).
Can someone figure out how to modify the macro to do this?  I am
not enough of a troff guru to do it myself.

Example:

    n this paragraph,
III the drop-cap is not
 I  aligned with the top
 I  line, but rather with
III the bottom line.   Is
there a way to fix this

 SSSS o that the top of the
S     drop-cap is aligned
 SSS  with the FIRST line
    S of the paragraph body?
SSSS  I think this makes a
      much better-looking
drop-cap design.


Dave Wolverton
AT&T
ihnp4!houxs!daw
Technical Details
Message-ID: <688@houxs.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!houxs!daw
References: <561@agsm.unsw.oz>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!houxs!daw
From: daw@houxs.UUCP (David Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: troff .DC macro for drop caps, version 2.0
Message-ID: <688@houxs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 15:19:32 GMT
References: <561@agsm.unsw.oz>
Organization: AT&T Data Systems Group, Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 27
Summary: need help to get a "better" look