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Re: Of course I have opinions!
Date: 2020-11-06 05:40 pm (UTC)Microsoft Word spits and other word processors fake C&SC by using a larger font size for the capital letters. It looks terrible because the stroke widths don’t match. Another approach is to use a completely different font for the initial letter: the dramatic contrast can’t be mistaken for a kludge.*
Your sample is using two complementary metal fonts made for this purpose, and as you’ve already realized, it’s a little trickier to do it with digital fonts.
I sipped at the fount of open source type familiers: Fontsquirrel. Their Latin Modern Roman has true C&SC and sets wide. Can’t tell you anything about using a non-installed font in LaTeX.
The lettrine macro in LaTeX is all about making chapter and paragraph openings look spiffy.
Those 17th century orthographic conventions make my eyes cross — probably the same reaction your Scots would have to decoding text messages with emoji.
* Does Swedish have an equivalent word?