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Re: [Groff] macro question
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] macro question |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:38:12 +0100 |
Hi Gaius,
> I wonder whether anyone has a macro which will typeset the first word
> of a chapter so that the first letter of the first word is double the
> vertical spacing of the remainder of the word. (There has to be a
> name for this, can anyone enlighten me?)
Dropped capitals? They don't have to be just two lines high.
First stab is something like this; you get the general idea.
.de dropcap
\\d\\d\c
'ps 26
\\$1\c
'ti \\w'\\$1'u
'ps 10
\\u\\u\\$2
..
.ps 10
.vs 12
.dropcap W hen
I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened
or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I
cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad
to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Ralph.