Paragraph Drop Capital palette (DC)

Build 1501 on 14/Nov/2017  This topic last edited on: 17/Mar/2016, at 16:49

Use the Paragraph Drop Capital palette (short: DC) to identify or change the following properties of the current paragraph or of all the highlighted paragraphs:

Lines: Number of lines to spread the drop capital across.

R. margin: Space between the drop capital and the next letter.

Chars: Number of letters in drop capital.

Rel. base: Horizontal scale of the drop capital letters. 1000 stands for the default letter width. 500 is 50%, 1400 is 140%.

Font: Font of the drop capital. If [Empty], the drop capital is in the same font as the rest of the text.

Capital: Vertical shift of the top of the drop capital letter: negative values make the letter(s) higher.

Baseline: Vertical shift of the baseline of the drop capital letter: negative values move the letter(s) up.

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Click the confirmation icon ok_icon to apply changes, or cancel icon cancel_icon to cancel changes.