Raised Caps Paragraph Style

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#1

Hi Folks,

Does anyone know how to create a paragraph style with the first letter
in "Raised Caps". Not sure that "Raised Caps" is the correct
terminology, but it is essentially the opposite of "Drop Caps". eg. A
paragraph begins with the word "The" and the base line of the enlarged
letter "T" remains level with the base line of the letters "he" and the
rest of the words on the first line.

I know the work-around is to create a suitable character style and apply
that to the letter "T", but I am training a small group of authors to
use Writer styles and they want to know why it is so easy to have a
paragraph style with "Drop Caps", but requires a work-around for "Raised
Caps".

I might of missed it, but I can't find a RFE for this in Bugzilla.

TIA

Dave

#2

AFAIK, the simplest way to obtain what you need is through the workaround you found. And the reason why this option does not exists (yet) is maybe that nobody thought about it, so go ahead and create a Bugzilla ticket! :slight_smile:

Maybe the drop caps feature could be extended to accept a negative number of lines so the cap get raised?

Regards,
Ricardo