Re: Lettrines in MkIV

[Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>]

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On 2010-09-23 <12:24:05>, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 23 September 2010 15:49:07 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>
> >>we know and we will take a look at it next week (as it takes some time
> >>to nail down node allocation bugs)
> >>
> >
> >As Hans indicated, he is aware of the problem with the lettrine module
> >and will fix it. In the meantime, you can get by using simply:
> >
> >%\usemodule [lettrine]
> >% broken, so let's fake it:
> >\def\lettrine#1#2{{\tfc #1}#2}
> >
> >Of course, this is no good for production, but it is a simple
> >solution if you are working on drafts.
> 
> Isn't it better to use initials? This is what one of setups has"
> 
> \definehead[initialtitle][title]
> 
> \setuphead[initialtitle]
>           [after=\placeinitial]
> 
> \definefontsynonym[initial][name:fontin]
> 
> \setupinitial
>   [   state=start,
>           n=3,
>    distance=-.1pc,
>   ]
> 
> And then I can simply use
> 
> \initialtitle {Don Knuth said}
> 
> \input knuth

Dear Alan, Aditya, and everybody else,

thanks for your efforts, but I’m afraid that you were being
mislead about my intentions.

I am (probably mis-)using the lettrine module in order to fake the
Knuthian \danger and \ddanger macros in auto-generated context
code. One of the main goals is, other than pure convenience on my
part, that understanding of the resulting code requires only
knowledge of high-level context macros, not of high-level tex
wizardry. Of course I could start with texbook, p. 419, and try
to adapt it to context (seems to be non-trivial), but even if I
should succeed, the effort necessary to understand what’s going
on is huge compared to when using a well-known and
well-documented module.

That’s why I rather do without autoindentation, as it concerns
only the layout of the manual, not the code itself.

@Aditya, I couldn’t get your code to work, neither in mkii nor in
mkiv. Anyways, I wasn’t aware of \setup/placeinitial before so I
learned something new today.

Philipp


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