Re: starting letter in latex

[Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk>]

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