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If you're looking for something like your second screenshot, you can select the drop-cap character and then go to the Character studio panel and adjust its Baseline setting in Positioning and Transform:
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-- Walt
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Hi @GeorgeMiller,

Welcome to the forums. This is possible but it is a 2 step process.

  1. Create a new Character Style, you can find the shortcut in the Context Menu, Give it a name, I chose Drop Cap 2 to keep it simple, I changed the font colour and the baseline to 12
  2. Now assign the built in Drop Cap Text style, then right click to edit the style, go to the Drop Cap section, choose the style that you have just created, you can also choose how many lines you want.

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Posted

Thanks for your suggestions. I'd already knew about the baseline hack. But this has not the effect, I'm looking for. I only want to effect two lines of text, but want the height of the dropcap to be 3 lines of text.

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I use two styles, the Paragraph style for the drop cap (1st Paragraph) and the Character Style (Drop Cap) for the the letter. Change the Size of the Character with scaling and change the number of lines in the paragraph.

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Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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20 minutes ago, GeorgeMiller said:

I'd already knew about the baseline hack. But this has not the effect, I'm looking for. I only want to effect two lines of text, but want the height of the dropcap to be 3 lines of text.

Sorry, but I don't understand.

What we've shown allows you to have a 3-line-high drop cap, that covers only two lines when you raise the baseline of the drop cap.

That sounds like exactly what you want, so if it's not, can you explain more about what's wrong with our suggestions?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

Posted

Happy to help.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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