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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: looking for TeX macro to do the following
Message-ID: <21732@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 08:43:22 GMT
References: <1990Jan9.180731.25450@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1990Jan9.180731.25450@ecf.utoronto.ca> apollo@ecf.utoronto.ca
(Vince Pugliese) writes:
>one of the guys is trying to pull off the following effect:
>
>***** hrough blackest day,
>  *   Through  darkest night,
>  *   Let no evil escape my sight
>  *   For those who worship evil's might 
>  *   Beware my power
>Green Lantern`s light!

There is a `drop capital' style file in the Clarkson collection
(`drop.sty').  Please be careful with it.  Drop capitals can make
text very hard to read; they are hard to get right.  Note also
the following comment in drop.sty:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%  DROP.DOC <February 17, 1988>
%  Macro for dropping and enlarging the first letter(s) of a paragraph.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
%  Macro written by David G. Cantor, and published Fri, 12 Feb 88, in
%  TeXhax, 1988 #16.  
%  Internet:  dgc@math.ucla.edu
%  UUCP:      ...!{ihnp4, randvax, sdcrdcf, ucbvax}!ucla-cs!dgc
%
%  Modified for use with LaTeX by Dominik Wujastyk, February 17, 1988
%  Internet:   dow@wjh12.harvard.edu
%  Bitnet:     dow@harvunxw.bitnet
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

%  In my opinion (DW) there are no fonts available in the standard
%  TeX/LaTeX set that are ideal for this use, unless you go down to 9pt or 
%  8pt for your text face, and this is too small.  If you have Metafont you
%  should consider generating a cmr17 font at a magstep of two (about 25pt)
%  or three (about 30pt), or even more, depending on the point size of your
%  main text.  Why not go the whole hog and design some really fancy 
%  capitals from scratch!
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