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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Printing the first letter of a chapter/article in big size
Message-ID: <1333@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 12 Aug 89 23:55:46 GMT
References: <205@imada.dk> <13654@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <13654@netnews.upenn.edu> kalita@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Jugal Kolita) writes:
| I wonder if someone has written the programs required to print the
| first letter in the beginning of an article or paper in a large font
| as they do in many books.

A style file called drop.doc was published in TeXhax v88 #16.  It does
just what you want, but finding a good font for the big character isn't
that easy.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu