Reply To: Style to outdent a drop cap.

Chris, a GREP style like this

^s

will be applied to just the very first whitespace character per paragraph. Does that help?

The code ^ stands for “start of paragraph”, and s is “any sort of white space, which includes the hair space. You can also use the actual hair space code here — can't recall right away what it was :) Or simply use a regular space, saving you wear and tear on shortcut keys.

There is no way around having to insert some sort of space before your drop cap. This is the only way to outdent text out of the frame, short of kludges with anchored text boxes. Only if you have lots of outdents, you could reverse your styles: add an indent to all of your text, and then you have a margin to let anything stick “out” of the left edge.