[OS X TeX] Drop Caps

[Adrian Heathcote]

Hi All

An update.

Michel Bovani was kind enough to forward the email on to Daniel Filipo 
and this is what he replied:

Sorry, Adrian this is not true: your (very reasonable) wish is already
fulfilled ;-) if you use pdfLaTeX, \LettrineFontEPS accepts graphics in
any format of image understood by pdfTeX (png, pdf, jpeg...).

Have a look at the latest documentation (demo.tex and demo.pdf) on CTAN:
version 1.4, 2002/10/26 (this version corrects a bug when \lettrine is
used in an abstract environment or alike, you should upgrade ;-).



It isn't clear from the documentation that to use it with pdftex you 
simply leave off the suffix: so if you have W.eps and W.pdf in the 
correct directories you simply use

\renewcommand{\LettrineFont}{\LettrineFontEPS}

in the preamble

and then

\lettrine{W}{}

in the text. (Not W.pdf)

I also did not have the problem with this release reported by Bob 
Kerstetter. (Might that not be a hyphenation problem, Bob?)

HTH

Adrian Heathcote


On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 02:19  AM, Adrian Heathcote wrote:

> The problem with lettrine.sty is that, if you want to use a 
> Haralambous Initial, then you must use dvips -->ghostscript 
> -->distiller rather than pdftex, because lettrine will only allow you 
> to 'drop' a graphic file if it is in EPS format. So even if you have 
> them in pdf format lettrine will not let you use them. This is a pity. 
> (If anyone knows the creator Daniel Flipo, perhaps a word could be put 
> in his shell-like ear that an adaptation for pdftex would be a boon 
> for mankind.)
>
> Adrian Heathcote
>
>
> On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 10:01  AM, Felipe Zaldivar wrote:
>
>> For a drop caps style you may try  lettrine.sty
>> it works fine.
>>
>> Felipe Zaldivar
>>
>>
>> On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 04:00 PM, Bob Kerstetter wrote:
>>
>>> Does GW teTeX have a dropcap package?
>>>
>>> drop.sty, dropcaps.sty, initials.sty do not seem be there.
>>>
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