Special Effects, Micro-Level

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:47:22 +0000

> i am writing my thesis and i am trying to let the first letter of each
> Chapter to be larger than the others, more exactely to span over two
> lines. This is frequent in some book styled papers.

You could use either the `dropping' or `lettrine' packages. I have used both, and I think that lettrine is better. There is more information in the TeX FAQ:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dropping

Jim Ottaway