[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136080] Add functionality to create high Drop Caps

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136080

--- Comment #3 from Clarc <f.thaler at posteo.net> ---
(In reply to Dieter from comment #2)
> What's the difference between high Drop Caps and just increase size of the
> first character?

Thank you for the question!

1. (As far as I know,) automating making the fist letter bigger isn't possible.
Automating Drop Caps, on the other hand, is easy.
For example, you can change your paragraph styles to always follow the order
Heading 1 -> Drop Caps Paragraph -> Text Body.

2. If Quotation-Mark-compatibility gets added for Drop Caps (see
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136049), Drop Caps will be
needed to properly style quotation marks that are placed before the big letter.
For example, I couldn't find a way to add am quotation mark (") in front (at
the top left) of the Big letter without making it enormous as well.

3. Manually making the first Letter big might mess up line-spacing. (As can be
seen in the  [Example for "High Drop Caps"]-picture). This would mean, the
writer needs to - again, manually - try to even out all the line-spacings.

4. Adding such a functionality to the Drop Caps-tab should be the most
intuitive place for such an functionality.

Those were a couple of reasons why this might be different and necessary.

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