texlive-lettrine 2025.2

Typeset dropped capitals

The lettrine package supports various dropped capitals styles, typically those described in the French typographic books. In particular, it has facilities for the paragraph text's left edge to follow the outline of capitals that have a regular shape (such as A and V).

Outputs: doc, out
Website: https://ctan.org/pkg/lettrine
Licenses: LPPL 1.3+
Package source: gnu/packages/tex.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install texlive-lettrine 2025.2 as follows:

guix install texlive-lettrine@2025.2

Or install the latest version:

guix install texlive-lettrine

The texlive-lettrine package provides more outputs besides the default (out). You can install them by appending :output-name to the package specification. For example:

guix install texlive-lettrine:doc

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.