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On Sizing and Positioning Drop Caps

TeX - LaTeX Asked by I. Chekhov on February 25, 2021

I would like to make use of drop caps so that they appear as follows:

enter image description here

Unfortunately, with the code

documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{color}
definecolor{Red}{RGB}{157,16, 45}
usepackage{lettrine}
input GoudyIn.fd
newcommand*initfamily{usefont{U}{GoudyIn}{xl}{n}}
begin{document}
large
lettrine[lines=3]{color{Red}{initfamily{A}}}{color{Red}s} the inclinations and judgments of writers have been different, so have they disposed themselves to treat of different matters.---Some, charmed with the beauty of eloquence,
end{document}

The output looks like this:

enter image description here

I would like to be able to:

  1. increase the size of the drop cap to resemble that given by the first output;
  2. and have the rest of the sentence begin below the top of the drop cap as illustrated again in the first output (It seems that when lines=3 is specified, it does not mean that the output will be the same).

Would someone show me how this can be done? Thank you.

One Answer

I tried your code (as below)

% lettrineprob.tex  SE 567648
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{color}
definecolor{Red}{RGB}{157,16, 45}
usepackage{lettrine}
input GoudyIn.fd
newcommand*initfamily{usefont{U}{GoudyIn}{xl}{n}}
begin{document}
large
lettrine[lines=3]{color{Red}{initfamily{A}}}{color{Red}s} the inclinations
 and judgments of writers have been different, so have they disposed 
 themselves to treat of different matters.---Some, charmed with the beauty of
 eloquence,
end{document}

and got this result, which seems to be what you are after.

enter image description here

Correct answer by Peter Wilson on February 25, 2021

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