[Scribus] Drop caps

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 13:09 schrieb avox:
> Owen Cook wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Eilert wrote:
> >> Owen Cook schrieb:
> >> > This may be of interest from http://search.srem.org/
> >> >
> >> > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-May/017992.html
> >>
> >> What's drop caps in German? :-)
> >
> > Google says Tropfenkappen
>
> Very funny. I doubt many Germans would have any idea what Tropfenkappen
> should mean and if they do, it sure wont be drop caps.

The word doesn't exist. A Google search delivers only a machine translated 
page (a translation for drop caps).

>
> I recommend http://dict.leo.org for online translations
> Englisch<->German<->French.
> It lists all possible translations with hints, and also phrases which
> contain that word.
>
> Very good, very professional, just not as funny as Google.

It's not bad, but it still needs a lot of improvements. For DTP terminology, I 
haven't found anything better than our Wiki glossary :)
That doesn't mean it's perfect, it needs a lot of improvement as well.
>
> /Andreas

Cheers,

Christoph