Re: starting letter in latex

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

roberto wrote:
> 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...
I think that you need to use LaTeX boxes for this.  Perhaps someone has 
written a LaTeX package to make the task easier.

I consider the best LaTeX guide to be Kopka & Daly, "A Guide to LaTeX", 
ISBN 0-201-39825-7.

RLH