[RM Prioleau]

If a chapter starts out with dialogue, how do you "drop cap" that? Which method is correct?

"Let's go home."

"Let's go home."

 

[Tara Shuler]

Roger C. Parker's One-Minute Designer suggests "When a quotation appears as the first sentence in a paragraph introduced with an initial cap, consider omitting the opening quotation mark."

Source: http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typelayout/qt/drop_quotes.htm

 

[RM Prioleau]

Won't omitting the initial quote throw the sentence off to the reader? (not to mention be grammatically incorrect if there's an end quote but no beginning quote?)

 

[Guest]

I'd just figure it out because of the END quote... speaking as a reader.

 

[Tara Shuler]

I'd just figure it out because of the END quote... speaking as a reader.

That's what I'm thinking. I think the quote at the end should easily give it away for the majority of readers.