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From: brian@babbage.csus.edu (Brian Witt)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: one BIG letter
Summary: first letter of paragraph larger than rest.
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.201529.9977@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 90 20:15:29 GMT
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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I'd like a style definition that produces one large letter at the beginning
of a paragraph.  Actually, just a definition in TeX, not a style in LaTeX.
For an example, check IEEE's COMPUTER articles.  it looks like:

     ********  he first line has
        *      a big letter that
        *      leads the way.  The
        *      rest of the paragraph
        *      has normal sized chars
               that are easy to read
     and easy to follow along.  The
     old Bibles use a similar style.

in Tex, this might be spelled out like:

    end of last paragraph.

    \onebigletter The first line has...

(where \onebigletter would grab the "T" since there are no curly braces
to grab a parameter).

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--- brian witt    //    brian@babbage.ecs.csus.edu     ---