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• • February 25, 2020 at 12:58 pm #1230625
    Rich Harvey

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    This may have been covered elsewhere, but keyword searches couldn’t find it… forgive me if I’m repeating something from elsewhere.

    Anyhow, I have a style to create a paragraph with a drop cap at each chapter’s beginning. Times New Roman 12 pt, with 15.3 pt leading. Any advice on creating a style that will apply a different font to the first letter?

    This could create layout nightmares in some cases, but the alternate font is a sans-serif, matching title and chapter headings, and it doesn’t seem to cause (too many) problems when swapping it out. If I attempt a paragraph style, the entire first paragraph becomes the sans-serif font, but going the character seems more time-consuming the necessary.

  • February 25, 2020 at 1:12 pm #14323063
    Aaron Troia

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    Rich,

    First make a character style and set it to the alternate font of your choice (all you need to set is family and style), then within your paragraph style assign that character style to your drop cap.

  • September 4, 2020 at 8:54 am #126840
    Rich Harvey

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    Aaron,
    Well that worked just fine! I was preparing to work on a document when I recalled this old thread. Frankly, I never paid much attention to the Drop Cap menu after Number of characters and number of lines. Amazing how the solution was there all along … Thanks!

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