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2004-11-22 09:50
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Related to 0000633. I can't seem to add a relationship - the relationship type pull-down is missing, and mantis reports "error 200 - A required parameter to this page was not found." when trying to add one by just entering the number and hitting add. |
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Quote: *the present behaviour is almost certainly not what the user intends when enabling drop caps.* You're right. Now, for the typographic rule, I can only speak for French and according to the *Memento typographique* from C. Gouriou — Hachette — the quotation mark before a drop cap is of the typesize of the body text. That said, there might be situations designers would want to deal with more than a glyph as drop cap, nonetheless. I would refer you to The Chicago Manual of Style for more on English and other languages. There must be other references, specific to each language. So, we need to be able to set a drop cap not only in number of lines but also in number of characters. I can think of one very good example where a 2-char drop cap is useful. Some fonts won't align perfectly to the edge of the frame and this will show dramatically when at the size of a drop cap. The workaround is to set the drop cap to 2 letters, put a regular space before the first letter, then track the two to the point where they overlap and reach the point where your drop cap is well aligned with the frame. |
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yes, the DC is what we have to improve :-/ |
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Heavily related to 0000460 |
- Anonymous
