Suggestions for dropping

The following packages have something in common with the package dropping. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.

• lettrine: Typeset dropped capitals
• context-lettrine: A ConTeXt implementation of lettrines
• drcaps: Simple dropped capitals
• dropcaps: Use dropped capitals to start a paragraph
• drop: Dropped capitals at the start of a paragraph (LaTeX 2.09)
• was: A collection of small packages by Walter Schmidt
• foilhtml: Interface between foiltex and LaTeX2HTML
• mapcodes: Support for multiple character sets and encodings
• psnfssx: Extra styles and encodings for PostScript fonts
• bpchem: Typeset chemical names, formulae, etc.
• ltxmisc: Miscellaneous LaTeX packages, etc.
• papertex: Class for newspapers, etc.
• osa: Macros for Optical Society of America Journals, etc.
• digiconfigs: Writing “configurations”
• ekaia: Article format for publishing the Basque Country Science and Technology Journal “Ekaia”
• hep: A “convenience wrapper” for High Energy Physics packages
• philosophersimprint: Typesetting articles for “Philosophers' Imprint”
• overrightarrow: Doubled “over” arrow
• preprint: A bundle of packages provided “as is”
• sepnum: Print numbers in a “friendly” format
• aurl: Extends the hyperref package with a mechanism for hyperlinked URLs abbreviated with prefixes
• econometrics: Defines some commands that simplify mathematic notation in economic and econometric writing
• cje: LaTeX document class for CJE articles
• ffslides: Freeform slides based on the article class
• pseudocode: LaTeX environment for specifying algorithms in a natural way
• stdpage: Standard pages with n lines of at most m characters each
• postcards: Facilitates mass-mailing of postcards (junkmail)
• boldtensors: Bold latin and greek characters through simple prefix characters
• oops: A framework for making definitions, typically mathematical, inline
• longtwocolumn: A twocolumn alternative allowing automatic page breaks
• fodot: Helpful commands to work with the FODOT