1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. 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The paragraph must span at least as many lines as you specify in the Lines box.</ahelp></paragraph> 47</section> 48<section id="howtoget"> 49 <embed href="text/swriter/00/00000405.xhp#initialen"/> 50</section> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151388" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Settings</paragraph> 52<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sw:CheckBox:TP_DROPCAPS:CB_SWITCH" id="bm_id3146322" localize="false"/> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147295" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="5">Show Drop Caps</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150536" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"><ahelp hid="SW_CHECKBOX_TP_DROPCAPS_CB_SWITCH">Applies the drop cap settings to the selected paragraph.</ahelp></paragraph> 55<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sw:CheckBox:TP_DROPCAPS:CB_WORD" id="bm_id3145824" localize="false"/> 56<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155626" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="19">Whole word</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154554" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20"><ahelp hid="SW_CHECKBOX_TP_DROPCAPS_CB_WORD">Displays the first letter of the first word in the paragraph as a drop cap, and the remaining letters of the word as large type.</ahelp></paragraph> 58<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sw:NumericField:TP_DROPCAPS:FLD_DROPCAPS" id="bm_id3150020" localize="false"/> 59<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154505" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="7">Number of characters</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149881" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"><ahelp hid="SW_NUMERICFIELD_TP_DROPCAPS_FLD_DROPCAPS">Enter the number of characters to convert to drop caps. </ahelp></paragraph> 61<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sw:NumericField:TP_DROPCAPS:FLD_LINES" id="bm_id3148775" localize="false"/> 62<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150932" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="9">Lines</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148391" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="10"><ahelp hid="SW_NUMERICFIELD_TP_DROPCAPS_FLD_LINES">Enter the number of lines that you want the drop cap to extend downward from the first line of the paragraph. Shorter paragraphs will not get drop caps.</ahelp> The selection is limited to 2-9 lines.</paragraph> 64<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sw:MetricField:TP_DROPCAPS:FLD_DISTANCE" id="bm_id3153920" localize="false"/> 65<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149030" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="11">Distance from text</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153926" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12"><ahelp hid="SW_METRICFIELD_TP_DROPCAPS_FLD_DISTANCE">Enter the amount of space to leave between the drop caps and the rest of the text in the paragraph.</ahelp></paragraph> 67<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153723" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="13">Contents</paragraph> 68<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sw:Edit:TP_DROPCAPS:EDT_TEXT" id="bm_id3147564" localize="false"/> 69<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154638" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="15">Text</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147569" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16"><ahelp hid="SW_EDIT_TP_DROPCAPS_EDT_TEXT">Enter the text that you want to display as drop caps instead of the first letters of the paragraph.</ahelp></paragraph> 71<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/sw:ListBox:TP_DROPCAPS:BOX_TEMPLATE" id="bm_id3156321" localize="false"/> 72<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150763" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="17">Character Style</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151181" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18"><ahelp hid="SW_LISTBOX_TP_DROPCAPS_BOX_TEMPLATE">Select the formatting style that you want to apply to the drop caps.</ahelp> To use the formatting style of the current paragraph, select [None].</paragraph> 74<embed href="text/shared/00/00000001.xhp#vorschau"/> 75</body> 76</helpdocument> 77