The lettrine package supports various dropped capitals styles, typically those described in the French typographic books. In particular, it has facilities for the paragraph text's left edge to follow the outline of capitals that have a regular shape (such as "A" and "V").
If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation manager. (For installation help, click on your distribution's name.)
| Distribution | Package name |
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| MiKTeX | lettrine |
| TeX Live | lettrine |
You can also visit lettrine's CTAN directory to browse the source or download the material for installation by hand.
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| Documentation off CTAN | -none known- | ||||
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| Version | 1.6 | ||||
| License | LaTeX Project Public License | ||||
| Related packages | -none recorded- | ||||
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