Re: starting letter in latex
roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello everyone
> i am writing my thesis and i am trying to let the first letter of each
> Chapter to be larger than the others, more exactely to span over two
> lines. This is frequent in some book styled papers.
>
> Do you know how to achieve it?
> I looked for it into some latex guide but nothing...
>
> Thank you.
You could use either the `dropping' or `lettrine' packages. I have used
both, and I think that lettrine is better. There is more information in
the TeX FAQ:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dropping
Regards,
--
Jim Ottaway
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