Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

This isn't quite the same, I don't want the capital to go down into the
other lines (a drop cap) I want it to have the same baseline as the rest of
the text like this (if you're viewing this in html mode):

The first letter is bigger than the rest...
This is the second line...

However, if I try to do this in libreoffice with register true turned on,
it is doing this:

The first letter is bigger than the rest...
[this gap appears]
This is the second line...

Interestingly using drop caps doesn't work quite right either with register
true turned on. It makes a two line drop cap too tall (that is to say, it
goes down two lines, like it should, but also up a line).

On 2 August 2012 15:21, Dan <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:

> rob wood wrote:
>
> > Thanks, spent all morning trying to get that to work :)
> >
> > The only problem I have left is that where I have set the very first
> > character of the very first paragraph to be 50% bigger than everything
> > else, with register true turned on, this causes an extra blank line to be
> > added beneath the first line. This enlarged letter has been done with a
> > character style. Any ideas on how this can be fixed (other than removing
> > the big capital or turning off register true)?
>
>      This is known as a Drop cap.
>      As a style, create a new paragraph style that is linked with the
> paragraph style you are presently using. Use the DropCap tab (page) of the
> new paragraph style to set the characteristics you want.
>
> --Dan
>
>
> > On 2 August 2012 14:40, Dan <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Regina Henschel wrote:
> > >  Hi Rob,
> > > > rob wood schrieb:
> > > >
> > > >  Hi,
> > > > > Firstly, thanks for all the replies about my blank page question. That
> > > > > is
> > > > > all working nicely, however, I am now stuck trying to get writer to
> > > > > insert
> > > > > a blank line before a paragraph. It is important it is *exactly* a line
> > > > > as
> > > > > otherwise the baseline of the text on the opposite page won't line up.
> > > > Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the
> > > > feature "Register
> > > > true".
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards
> > > > Regina
> > >        This is a very nice thing to know. I did not know it was possible.
> > >
> > >        Using the Page style to select this feature:
> > > 1) Right click the page style being used.
> > > 2) Select Modify.
> > > 3) Click the Page tab.
> > > 4) "Register true" has a check box (tick box?) which is third down in the
> > > Layout section.
> > >
> > > --Dan
>
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