[XeTeX] enlarged characters

[Alan Munn]

Can you post an example of what you want things to look like?  Are the characters independent of the text they are beside (in which case you might be able to use \marginpar ), or are they the first character of a paragraph (in which case the lettrine package might help.)

Alan

P.S.  When you start a new topic, you shouldn't reply to an existing message, since then all the messages get grouped together.


On Feb 5, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am quite new at XeTeX, and also have very limited experience with LaTeX,
> as I prefer to use plain.
> Now I have to use XeLaTeX for an edition.
> For this edition I need to put large capitals in the left margin of the
> text. As they span sometimes 2 lines, sometimes 3, I need to call the font
> I am using at larger scales. How do I do that? My file starts:
> 
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \setmainfont[Ligatures=NoCommon]{Junicode}
> 
> Thanks for any hints,
> 
> Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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