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From: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Dropped Caps
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Date: 4 Apr 89 21:25:34 GMT
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Reply-To: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker)
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I don't think cminch font is suitable for this purpose.  What you
should do is use Metafont to generate a new font say cmr17 at 
either magstep2 or magstep3 and use that as the dropped letter.
I remember reading about a dropped cap macro in one of the TeXhax
digests last year or maybe earlier (time flies when you're a grad
student ;-) which is probably in the latex-style archives at clarkson.
Maybe you should check that to see what font was used.

Atul Kacker
akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu