Re: Initials not scaled properly over 3 Lines

[Pilhofer, Frank]

Paul,
thank you, that does the trick! Actually, step 3 (loading the fix-cm package) 
is sufficient. Once I add that package, the initials are scaled properly.
The DefaultLines counter in the preamble sets the default number of lines for 
the initial packages, so that I do not have to configure the "lines" option 
every time.
Thank you,
Frank

Re: Initials not scaled properly over 3 Lines

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 05/24/2017 11:36 AM, Pilhofer, Frank wrote:


Hi,

I am trying to use the Initials package with initials set over three 
lines. I have placed „\setcounter{DefaultLines}{3}“ in the preamble. 
In the PDF output, I see that the initial “E” is indeed vertically 
spaced across three lines. However, the letter “E” is only scaled 
across two lines. In fact, the “E” is the same size as if DefaultLines 
was set to 2. Please see my attached test file. Also, the 
“loversize=.5” option, if added to the Initials, appears to be ignored 
(which I’ve tried to use to compensate). Since this is my first 
attempt at using this package, I assume that this is my fault and not 
a bug. Could you enlighten me please? This is with LyX 2.2.3.


Thank you,

Frank


Does the attached do what you want? Here's  a list of the changes I made:

1. I switched the language from German to English (US) to get rid of an
   error message I was getting related to the babel package. You should
   not need to do that, and it should be unrelated to the drop-caps.
2. I commented out two lines you had in the preamble (unnecessary, at
   least for the drop-cap).
3. I loaded the fix-cm package (critical to getting a big enough
   initial capital).
4. Putting the cursor just inside the "Initial" inset, I selected
   Insert > Options and added the option "lines=3".

Paul




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Initials not scaled properly over 3 Lines

[Pilhofer, Frank]

Hi,
I am trying to use the Initials package with initials set over three lines. I 
have placed "\setcounter{DefaultLines}{3}" in the preamble. In the PDF output, 
I see that the initial "E" is indeed vertically spaced across three lines. 
However, the letter "E" is only scaled across two lines. In fact, the "E" is 
the same size as if DefaultLines was set to 2. Please see my attached test 
file. Also, the "loversize=.5" option, if added to the Initials, appears to be 
ignored (which I've tried to use to compensate). Since this is my first attempt 
at using this package, I assume that this is my fault and not a bug. Could you 
enlighten me please? This is with LyX 2.2.3.
Thank you,
Frank



Test.lyx
Description: Test.lyx