I can not use Drop Caps if trying to have an inset paragraph

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November 14, 2022
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I cannot make Drop Caps work as it did only a few days ago. If the paragraph needs to be inset from the left, the drop cap and the following line or 2 are moved further to the right than the bulk of the selected text. Has anyone else experienced this?

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pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Can you please show your settings in: General

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John27125475os0wAuthor

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Is this what you want?

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Nothing weird in your settings but I see that you have overrided the paragraph style (the small + sign), so I think that there is an indent on the first line. Can you show the paragraph panel (not the paragraph style panel)? What happens if you remove the override?

At this point, screenshots no longer seem to be sufficient.

@John27125475os0w

Is it possible for you to save this double page as a separate IDML and as an INDD and open both files again? If that does not work, please upload these two files (without confidential data) to a hoster of your choice (e.g. Dropbox or similar) and post the link here in the forum.

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

And in addition: Show us your settings please.

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John27125475os0wAuthor

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See attached:

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

That looks strange to me.

Is that what you have - or what you need???

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John27125475os0wAuthor

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It's what is being generated by InDesign now. I want the drop cap to align with the inset left margin. If the margin were to the left-most position (not set toward the right) the drop caps seem to work fine, but it steps in further than required/expected, when the left margin is moved right.

jmlevy

Community Expert

In your first screenshot, it seems that you have applied an indent on the first line only, and since the drop cap is on 2 lines, the indent applies to the first 2 lines. Did you try to apply the indent on the whole paragraph?