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   title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - 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="RESOLVED WONTFIX - PARAGRAPH DIALOG: Improve Drop Caps to make them work with quotation marks."
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136049#c12">Comment # 12</a>
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   title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - 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:heiko.tietze@documentfoundation.org" title="Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze@documentfoundation.org>"> <span class="fn">Heiko Tietze</span></a>
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        <pre>(In reply to V Stuart Foote from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=136049#c7">comment #7</a>)
<span class="quote">> ... 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.</span >

The CS doesn't make the character spans multiple lines as drop caps does. Drop
caps are defined in the open document format [1] and we have to stick to this
for compatibility. So WF.
What you can do is to apply a superscript CS to the first character(s) of your
drop caps, looks terrible however.

[1]
<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#__RefHeading__1416500_253892949">http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#__RefHeading__1416500_253892949</a></pre>
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