Using the lettrine package, big drop caps can sometimes overlap next paragraphs, as show here:
How can I do it so that following paragraphs are built around the lettrine instead of overlapping it?
[Tex/LaTex] Preventing drop caps from overlapping next paragraph
drop-caplettrine
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Something like this perhaps
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\def\a{One two three four five six seven eight nine ten.}
\def\b{\a\a something else \a\a yet more text \a\a\a
\a\a\a\a\a\a\a}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[{%
\sbox0{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-1cm-1em}{%
\b}}%
\raisebox{\dimexpr4pt-.5\height}{%
\includegraphics[width=1cm,height=\dimexpr\ht0+\dp0]{e.png}}%
\hspace{1em}%
\usebox0
}]
\b\b\b\b
\a\a\b\b
\end{document}
If you are willing to buy a font, some sites let you search for the existence of a particular character (e.g., myfonts.com). But you won’t find many sets of ornamental initials that include Ś.
If you have a font with the combining acute accent, all is well. Here’s an example with Eadui, a free font.
\documentclass[12pt,a5paper]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec,lettrine,xcolor}
\newfontface\eadui{Eadui}[
Color=2F6D83]
\newfontface\eaduifill{Eadui Fill}[
Color=CFC598]
\renewcommand{\LettrineFontHook}{\eadui}
\setcounter{DefaultLines}{3}
\renewcommand{\DefaultLoversize}{.15}
\begin{document}
% type S followed by U+0301, the combining acute accent
\lettrine{Ś\llap{\eaduifill S}}{ecunderabad} popularly known as
the twin city of Hyderabad is located in the Indian state of
Telangana. Named after Sikandar Jah, the third Nizam of the Asaf Jahi
dynasty, Secunderabad was founded in 1806 as a British cantonment.
\end{document}
That’s not an appropriate font for the subject of your paragraph, but it illustrates the technique.
With ZallmanCaps, you can call upon newunicodechar, but you’ll have to do some adjusting by hand, since the Latin Modern acute accent doesn’t land in the right spot for ZallmanCaps:
\documentclass[12pt,a5paper]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec,lettrine,newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{́}{{\normalfont ́}}
\newfontface\zallman{ZallmanCaps}
\renewcommand{\LettrineFontHook}{\zallman}
\setcounter{DefaultLines}{3}
\renewcommand{\DefaultLoversize}{.15}
\begin{document}
% type S followed by U+0301, the combining acute accent
\lettrine{Ś}{ecunderabad} popularly known as the twin city of
Hyderabad is located in the Indian state of Telangana. Named after
Sikandar Jah, the third Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, Secunderabad
was founded in 1806 as a British cantonment.
\lettrine[findent=.6em]{S\hspace{-.175em}\raisebox{.7ex}{́}}{ecunderabad}
popularly known as the twin city of Hyderabad is located in the Indian
state of Telangana. Named after Sikandar Jah, the third Nizam of the
Asaf Jahi dynasty, Secunderabad was founded in 1806 as a British
cantonment.
\end{document}
Note that \lettrine has two arguments; using only one is why you got a small cap for the first letter after the lettrine. By the way, despite the tweaking required by this approach, pdftotext correctly extracts Ś from the PDF.
Best Answer
@egreg's suggestion works fine. So since I already had a command to typeset for each paragraph (
\bverse), I made a new command (\bversenopar) and didn't skip a line:And it works fine: