Drop Cap Text in Publisher

[mnh]

Hi All,

I am moving from Serif PagePlus to Affinity Publisher, so still learning.

Is there a Drop Cap text or leading character text feature in Affinity Publisher? In PagePlus I can select the paragraph, right click and select Drop Cap, and then I can select Dropped or Raised. Anything like that in Affinity Publisher? Thanks in advance

[Fixx]

In Publisher it is quite a normal paragraph style feature, also available in Paragraph panel.

[mnh]

Hi Fixx,

Thanks for the quick reply. I had not seen earlier, paragraph object selected, in the right hand pane, paragraph tab, then scroll down, and expand "Drop Caps".

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[Old Bruce]

For a "raised cap" I first make a Character Style, "Drop Cap", with No Change for everything except the Scaling which I set at 200% or 300% for 2 or 3 lines. Then I set up a Paragraph Style and choose 1 line for the height and the "Drop Cap" Character Style.

[MikeW]

3 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

For a "raised cap" I first make a Character Style, "Drop Cap", with No Change for everything except the Scaling which I set at 200% or 300% for 2 or 3 lines. Then I set up a Paragraph Style and choose 1 line for the height and the "Drop Cap" Character Style.

I do the a similar thing in QXP. I also hang the leading raised cap about 5% depending on point size.

Just for a bit of automation, I do use what Q calls "conditional styles" so I can click into the (typically) chap start paragraph and it sets the p.style and applies the c.style to the first character (the c.style just uses a larger point size versus scaling).

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