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   title="UNCONFIRMED - PARAGRAPH DIALOG: Improve Drop Caps to make them work with quotation marks."
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136049">bug 136049</a>
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   title="UNCONFIRMED - PARAGRAPH DIALOG: Improve Drop Caps to make them work with quotation marks."
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136049#c7">Comment # 7</a>
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   title="UNCONFIRMED - PARAGRAPH DIALOG: Improve Drop Caps to make them work with quotation marks."
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136049">bug 136049</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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        <pre>Actually ODF supports it fine, just the ODF 1.3 "Canned" paragraph Drop Cap [1]
remains limited in composing the style:drop-cap

It is convenient of course to just tic a box on the Paragraph style Drop Caps
tab--but it is trivial otherwise to assign a typographically rich Character
Style (or two) to the leading character or words including punctuation of the
text run in a paragraph.  And to reuse character style(s) on subsequent
paragraphs. 

Such character styling can be captured into templates for reuse.

Adjusting the LO instance of "style:length word" attribute syntax to include
preceding punctuation might also be possible. But would diverge from ODF 1.3
norm.

But IMHO => WF as reasonable function applying character style to text runs is
already provided.

=-ref-=
[1]
<a href="https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs01/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs01-part3-schema.html#element-style_drop-cap">https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs01/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs01-part3-schema.html#element-style_drop-cap</a>

Providing attributes: distance, length, lines & style-name</pre>
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                [<a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - [META] Paragraph dialog bugs and enhancements"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107642">Bug 107642</a>] [META] Paragraph dialog bugs and enhancements
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                [<a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - [META] Drop caps bugs and enhancements"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109316">Bug 109316</a>] [META] Drop caps bugs and enhancements
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