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initial letter alignment I don't call them initial caps because you don't always have to use a cap what we're talking about here with initial letters is a technique of starting an article or sometimes starting a paragraph within an article with an oversized and somewhat more decorative character to signify number one the this is where the article begins but it also becomes a design element that's used by mostly by magazines and editorial and it's a it's a fabulous technique I'm just going to show you a few things and show you some of the concerns you should have inform adding these initials but sometimes the initial is bigger than the headline I mean that it's it's a really fun technique to use the thing is you have to know how to use it appropriately in terms of alignment so this is what we call a drop initial because it drops down into the text and I'll start off by saying that when I set initial letters I do not use the automatic feature or the drop cap or the drop letter feature in the software because as you might have figured I'm a real control freak and I want to be able to control it to the ummph degree and I want to be able to so what I do is I set the initial in a separate text box or whatever and I and that way I can I blow up a screen and I drag guidelines and I put it exactly where I want and that's how I do it so I'm going to show you what I think are the important things to consider and my suggestion is is you probably will want to do it that way unless the technology has gotten so advanced that you can achieve it with those features they might have I just don't go there because I like I said I like to have complete control but anyway so what you see here is a drop cap it's an F with seraphs and the things you have to remember are it needs to align on the bottom with a line of type okay it should align on the left margin somewhere I don't think this is the proper alignment which I'll talk about in a moment this is mechanically aligned this is a line right now so that the seraphs of that F are aligned with the text below it okay and on the top it should align with something unless you happen to have an initial that's sitting above and below of the text and that's okay too but if your intention is to have it top a line and be a drop cap in the you know sort of the official sense the top of that F needs to align with I say something okay what is that something well it can align with the x height it can align with an ascending character it can...