In older texts, such as in books of fairy tales, we sometimes see the first paragraph in a text starting with a huge letter, while the following text flows around it. This is called a drop cap or an initial. We will now use this design for our own text.
We will use the lettrine package, which provides a command for this purpose. Follow these steps:
Start a document with any document class. Here, we chose the
bookclass. We will use A6 paper size, simply because this makes the recipe easy to show with little text:\documentclass{book} \usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}Load the
lettrinepackage:\usepackage{lettrine}Begin the document:
\begin{document}Start a paragraph with the command
\lettrine{letter}{further introduction}, as follows:\lettrine{O}{nce upon a time}, professional writer used a mechanical machine called a typewriter. It commonly printed fixed-width characters. Emphasizing was done by writing all capitals, and by underlining...