[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136049] New: Improve Drop Caps to make them work with quotation marks.

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136049

            Bug ID: 136049
           Summary: Improve Drop Caps to make them work with quotation
                    marks.
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.0.0.3 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: f.thaler at posteo.net

Description:
Currently, if you want your Drop-Caps-Paragraph to start with a quotation / a
sentence a character speaks, there are two options:
1. Only have the quotation mark enormous, which obviously doesn't look too
great.
2. Have both quotation mark and the following letter big. This is a little
better, but still isn't ideal.

Why? Because many writers would prefer something like this:
http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/quoteInitial1.gif
or this: https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/8/72/288889973-Drop_caps_quote.png


I suggest:

1. Create an [Ignore] option in the Drop Caps settings for a style. Make it a
textbox or a field of common symbols where the user can write/choose symbols,
that should be ignored. 
There, the user could, for example, put in/select quotation marks ("), which
will make the first letter AFTER the quotation mark big.

2.1. Additionally, add the option, that IF one of those exception-characters
was detected, LO could add/remove an extra-indent, to make the quotation mark
not displace the Drop Caps letter.
2.2. In addition to 2.2., give the user to check a "Indent the first line by
the skipped characters' width.".

3. Add settings to individually style both the "skipped" character before the
Drop Caps and after them.

Those changes should give users WAY more freedom to style their Drop Caps...
and Drop Caps are something beautiful.
Here's a picture of several different Drop Caps, and it would be amazing, if LO
had the capabilities to achieve similar results:
http://etutorials.org/shared/images/tutorials/tutorial_77/figure10_16_quote.jpg

Actual Results:


Expected Results:



Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Also, as a somewhat new user, I really have no idea how to style the current
Drop Caps. I suspect, it's by editing a special style only Drop Caps use.
Possibly, this could be made more intuitive too. (maybe just by adding a "Edit
Drop Caps"-button that makes the correct settings-window pop up)

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-bugs/attachments/20200823/2422fe78/attachment-0001.htm>