How can I use lettrine at the start of a paragraph used in the wrapfigure environment.
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\newcounter{cnt}\setcounter{cnt}{0}
\def\t{\stepcounter{cnt}\thecnt. cat sat on the mat. }
\begin{document}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.3\textwidth}
\vspace{1ex}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=1in]{image}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lettrine{T}{he cat sat} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\end{document}
Which yields the following result, I have shifted the image down so that the problem is made more apparent, ie, wrapfig is ignored.
NOTE: David Carlisle has provided a pretty good answer so far, however, the following anomalies occur with the output, specifically, an update was made to David's original code to allow the modified lettrine (wflettrine{...}) to take the optional arguments in order to control the letter height etc, however, by default, the following output is returned if the optional argument lines=5 is now parsed.
The above was achieved with the code command:
\wflettrine[lines=5]{T}{he cat sat}
And it is clear to see under the red-highlighted region, that the drop-cap letter is not taking up the whole space, strangely enough, the same behavior was observed on my machine with the default computer-modern font, under a normal use of lettrine.
By changing the font to Helvetica, via the use of the following in the preamble:
\usepackage{helvet}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
And executing the same command, yields the following output.
And it is clear that the previous problem is resolved (by the correct drop-cap usage under the green highlighted section), however, this has pushed the wrapfig component to the right, as can be seen under the red-highlighted section.
It appears as though the wrapfig has been pushed to the right by what appears to be the same amount as the width of the dropcap letter 'T'.
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