RE: DroppedCaps

RE: DroppedCaps

[Haseloff, Lutz]

Hi Hans, Hi all,

> Do you run etex or pdfetex? What version? Todays? It runs here. BTW, there
> is more advanced drop stuff there, just grep for DroppedCaps. 

I run pdfetex 0.14e 17.02.2000 by fabrice, the newest pdfetex for windows i
found.

Greetings

Lutz

RE: DroppedCaps

[Haseloff, Lutz]

Hi Hans, Hi all,

My Dropped Caps are looking very nice again.

Greetings

Lutz

DroppedCaps

[Haseloff, Lutz]

Hi all,

With the new ConTeXt beta the command \DroppedCaps don´t work.
I typeset an old Article by Jan Tschichold and it did look very nice.

my file is:

\def\MyDroppedCaps%
  {\DroppedCaps
     {} {padr9e}
     {2\baselineskip} {3pt} {\baselineskip} {2}}

\starttext
 \MyDroppedCaps Zwei
\stoptext

there is an error message: ! missing \endcsname inserted

it works with the normal ConTeXt.

Greetings

Lutz

Re: DroppedCaps

[Hans Hagen]

At 02:49 PM 9/12/00 +0200, Haseloff, Lutz wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>With the new ConTeXt beta the command \DroppedCaps don´t work.
>I typeset an old Article by Jan Tschichold and it did look very nice.
>
>my file is:
>
>\def\MyDroppedCaps%
>  {\DroppedCaps
>     {} {padr9e}
>     {2\baselineskip} {3pt} {\baselineskip} {2}}
>
>\starttext
> \MyDroppedCaps Zwei
>\stoptext
>
>there is an error message: ! missing \endcsname inserted
>
>it works with the normal ConTeXt.

Do you run etex or pdfetex? What version? Todays? It runs here. BTW, there
is more advanced drop stuff there, just grep for DroppedCaps. 

Also, use logical names! \definefont [DroppedFont] [padr9e] with
\setupinitial[font=DroppedFont] etc ect Search for \setupinitial. 

Hans
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Re: DroppedCaps

[Hans Hagen]

At 02:49 PM 9/12/00 +0200, Haseloff, Lutz wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>With the new ConTeXt beta the command \DroppedCaps don´t work.
>I typeset an old Article by Jan Tschichold and it did look very nice.
>
>my file is:
>
>\def\MyDroppedCaps%
>  {\DroppedCaps
>     {} {padr9e}
>     {2\baselineskip} {3pt} {\baselineskip} {2}}
>
>\starttext
> \MyDroppedCaps Zwei
>\stoptext
>
>there is an error message: ! missing \endcsname inserted
>
>it works with the normal ConTeXt.

You can change the following definition in font-ini (only in latest beta): 

\def\dododefinefont#1#2%
  {\parsefontspec[#2]{\bodyfontsize}{#1}\getvalue{#1}}

I swapped #1 and #2 -) 

There was a change in the font mechanism, which now also supports the "mo"
spec: 

%D \mapfontsize[10pt][11pt]
%D \mapfontsize[11pt][12pt]
%D \mapfontsize[12pt][13pt]
%D
%D \definefont[test][Serif]\test TEST \par
%D \definefont[test][Serif sa 5]\test TEST \par
%D \definefont[test][Serif mo 5]\test TEST \par
%D \definefont[test][Serif sa d]\test TEST \par
%D \definefont[test][Serif at 60pt]\test TEST \par
%D \definefont[test][Serif scaled 6000]\test TEST \par

which is needed for math times where the math roman has a different size. 

Hans
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