two drop caps questions

["James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

I saw an interesting variation on dropped caps recently (in
McCaffrey's latest, {\em The Skies of Pern}).  The capheight
of the dropped cap is about 2.5 times \baselineskip with its
baseline matching the second row of text's baseline.

(Some of the) sections w/in a chapter have a 'dropped cap'
which isn't dropped;  its capheight is about twice the text
font's capheight and its baseline matches the first line of
text.

The latter is of course quite easy to do.  Am I correct that
the former can be done a la NiceDroppedCaps but with voffset
set baselineskip smaller than NiceDroppedCaps sets it?  Or
should height be be adjusted instead?

For the second question, given:

\def\DC%
        {\NiceDroppedCaps{}{FontName}{0pt}{3}}

what needs to change so that something like:

\DC
\quotation{This chapter starts with some dialog,} he said.

does the right thing, just like this does:

\DC
This chapter starts with some dialog,'' he said.

Can it be done at all w/o changing the definition of \quotation,
\quote et al?  Would it be easier to make this work:

\DC
``This chapter starts with some dialog,'' he said.

-JimC
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