Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 108472
2nd drop cap wrong size after parenthesis, bracket, brace
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:26:06 UTC
The second character of a two-character drop cap is smaller than it should be, when the first character is an open parenthesis, left bracket, or left brace (possibly others, I didn't check them all). Unlike issue 97626, this affects PDF output, so presumably affects printing as well. Open the attached document to see the problem. The example is in TNR, but other serif fonts also show the problem. (Checked under 3.2RC2, no difference.)
Created attachment 67303 [details] 2-char drop caps with first (, [, {
MRU->OS: Drop caps are differently scaled depending on the characters inside the drop cap label. See attached document, there is e.g. "(B" as drop caps and when the ( is removed and added from the drop cap, the B is differently scaled. Yes, I know that it is exactly displayed as in normal text when you have (B) as drop cap, but IMO this does not look well. Every character in the drop cap label should be scaled to fill the region.
The size of the drop cap text is calculated depending on the height of the biggest character. Parenthesis, brackets and braces are higher than capital letters. That's why in such combinations the capital letters are smaller than they are combined with lower case letters. On the other hand this way of calculation takes care of drop caps consisting on lower case letters, symbols etc. Those are expected to fill the height of the drop cap area completely. It might make sense to add an option to the drop caps that enables height calculation depending on a reference (lower case letter|capital letter| max. height)
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