From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18534 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mats Broberg" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: RE: lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:51:04 +0100 Message-ID: <001201c51cba$3bdf1e60$cbddd850@DJCPX90J> References: <42219D61.5050608@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109501358 11338 80.91.229.2 (27 Feb 2005 10:49:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Feb 27 11:49:18 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5Lyt-0005d5-Kr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:48:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DD512879; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:53:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24776-01; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:53:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899EE1286F; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:50:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309E11286F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:50:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24617-03 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:50:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from amsfep19-int.chello.nl (unknown [213.46.243.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F248127A5 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:50:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from DJCPX90J ([80.216.221.203]) by amsfep19-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.03.05 201-2131-111-107-20040910) with ESMTP id <20050227105055.SGHF1799.amsfep19-int.chello.nl@DJCPX90J> for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:50:55 +0100 Original-To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <42219D61.5050608@wxs.nl> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18534 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18534 > auto-lettrines (dropcaps etc) are kind of complex in the > sense that it's not > trivial to pick up the first 'something' in a paragraph in a > robust way [we may > want some extension to tex for that (so we have something to > discuss during our > trip to eurotex -) > > Hans If I may chime in: Also, automated drop caps (if that is what you refer to) is not a feasible way to go if high typographic quality is important. Different typefaces and different characters need different level of protruding into the left margin, as well as other actions of tweaking. As an example, the automated drop caps in some of the more famous DTP programs are useless. Best regards, Mats Broberg