Text Formatting ⇒ Lettrine + hyphen

[1motep]

Hi everyone !

I'm writing a novel and at the beginning of each chapter, I'd like to use a lettrine for the first letter. The problem is that for some chapters, the first sentence is a dialogue, therefore, the first character is a hyphen. I use the option "ante" in order to put the hypen before the first letter but I'd like it to be aligned with the second line and not the first.

See the code below :

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}

\begin{document}

\lettrine[ante=—]{S}{}urprise steepest recurred landlord mr wandered amounted of. Continuing devonshire but considered its. Rose past oh shew roof is song neat. Do depend better praise do friend garden an wonder to. Intention age nay otherwise but breakfast. Around garden beyond to extent by.

\end{document}

I've read the documentation for the lettrine package but impossible to solve my problem.
If someone has an answer, I thank him very much !
I wish a pleasant day to you all !

1motep

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi 1motep,

welcome to the forum!

That's an excellent example code, so we can easily test. I can see that adding two lines via ante would be good, such as by using \parbox:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}
 
\begin{document}
 
\lettrine[ante={\parbox[t]{1em}{\ \\ -}}]{S}{}urprise steepest recurred landlord mr wandered amounted of. Continuing devonshire but considered its. Rose past oh shew roof is song neat. Do depend better praise do friend garden an wonder to. Intention age nay otherwise but breakfast. Around garden beyond to extent by.
 
\end{document}

Stefan