Reply To: Drop cap inside a box

Furry: also brillant! This is great teamwork. Setting the drop cap to 3 characters and manually adding the thin spaces around the character is a great solution for getting the underline to cover more space.

As for addressing the problem of the first three lines bumping against the right side of the colored box, some manual kerning will do the trick. Insert your cursor to the left of the second letter (between the last drop cap character and the first regular character) and press alt+right arrow as many times as necessary– it will move all 3 lines over to the right, not just the first line, because it affects the space around the entire drop cap. If alt+right arrow is moving in too small or too big increments, you can change the increment under Preferences > Units & Increments – at the bottom is the increment for kerning/tracking.