Adobe FRAMEMAKER 7 Manual page 208

228 LESSON 9
Anchored Frames and Graphics
Creating a drop cap
A drop cap is a large capital letter that drops down into the text. The last art you'll add is
a drop cap at the beginning of this document. This time, you'll create the anchored frame
first. Then you'll add the drop cap afterward.
1 Go to page 1 of Anchors1.fm.
2 Delete the letter B at the beginning of the first paragraph of body text (beginning with
Back on Highway 19).
Kohala Lava Desert Area
ack on Highway 19 heading South, the
large cluster of palms towards the ocean at
3 With the insertion point still at the beginning of the paragraph, choose Special >
Anchored Frame.
4 Make sure that Anchoring Position is still set to Run into Paragraph and that the Gap
is set to 2 points.
5 Click New Frame. An empty anchored frame appears at the insertion point.
6 At the right side of the document window, click the Tools button.
Tools button
7 In the Tools palette, click the text line tool (
text that FrameMaker 7.0 treats independently from other text. You can apply character
formats to this kind of text, but not paragraph formats.
). This tool lets you create a single line of