Reply To: Variable Drop Caps…

Well, yes, Massey … but that's no proper use of Drop Caps.

It's funny — I started thinking what you would need, besides a character style for 'n digits', applied through a nested style. This character style ought to make the size large enough and move the baseline down, but then you would need a function “Indent first x lines”, and InDesign does not have that.

… doesn't it?

Surprise, surprise: it does! Set a tab position at the right indent-to distance, set your Drop Caps number of characters to '1' and the required indenting number of first lines … and insert one Tab at the start. Presto! One Indent first x lines function!