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Just to report back, a probably more "correct" solution, suggested to me by D. Flipo is to add the \par command at the end of the environment, as in:

\newenvironment{att}{\lettrine{A}{}}{\par}

This is because of the \parshape command used in the code of lettrine. Of course, this forces the ...

Thanks for the suggestion.

It works, but I don't really want to use minipage, because minipage won't allow page breaks in the middle of the environment.

Thanks anyway.

Instead of using a search engine you'd better read the lettrine manual.

Needless to say, I did that too, in the first place. But I cannot find any relevant information in the manual with respect to the problem mentioned above. Did you mention I should read the manual as a general comment, or do ...

Hi,

Does anyone understand the weird behaviour of lettrine when used at the beginning of a newenvironment definition? It seems to put the letter in the margin, for a reason I don't understand. I've google a bit, without success. Here is a short example file demonstrating what I describe.

Any hints ...