Re: Special layouts don't recognise placeinitial

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 5/23/2021 2:41 AM, Eduardo Bohoyo wrote:
> My question will be very simple: Is there a trick to make \placeinitial 
> command work within makeup pages?
> 
> One of my pages inside the /frontmater/ is a quote page within an 
> special layout. Before using LMTX, when I could use the Lettrine module, 
> that quote started with a capital letter. But now that I use 
> \placeinitial, the first letter no longer changes: it remains a simple 
> initial capital letter.
> On the other hand, when I use \placeinitial for each first paragraph in 
> the chapters of my book, the result is as expected. That is, the command 
> works fine as long as it stays within the general layout.
> This is the code I'm referring to:
> 
> \startmakeup[standard][doublesided=yes]
> 
> \setuplayout[backspace=176pt,width=194pt]
> \setupinterlinespace[line=22pt]
> \style[tfa]
> 
> \startalignment[hanging,flushleft,nothyphenated]
> \placeinitial Ahora, vosotros que amáis, dejadme que os formule una 
> pregunta: ¿quién sufre más por  ello,  Arcite  o  Palamón? ¿El  que  ve  
> a  su  dama  diariamente,  pero  está  encerrado para  siempre,  o  el  
> que  es  libre  de  ir  donde  le  plazca, pero  no  verá  nunca  más  
> a  su  dama?  Aquellos  de  vosotros que  podáis,  elegid  entre  las  
> dos  situaciones  a  voluntad; yo,  por  mi  parte, continuaré como he 
> empezado.
> \stopalignment
> 
> \startalignment[hanging,flushright,nothyphenated]
> \blank[0.8cm,force]{\tfa\sc  Geofrey Chaucer,\hspace[big]}
> \blank[0.1cm,force]{\tfa\em The Canterbury Tales \hspace[big]}
> \stopalignment
> 
> \stopmakeup
You can add this to cont-new.mkxl (assuming lmtx)

\unprotect

\permanent\tolerant\protected\def\flushinitial
   {\typo_initial_handle}

\protect

and then

     \placeinitial  \flushinitial Ahora, ...

will work. More clever automated solutions are likely to interfere and 
have side effects for embedded cases so this is the best I can come up 
with now.

Hans



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