From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Lettrines in MkIV
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:27:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009232027.22982.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009231335190.26185@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On Thursday 23 September 2010 19:38:46 Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> >
> > %D \macros
> > %D {setupinitial,placeinitial,checkinitial}
> > %D
> > %D {\em To be documented.}
> >
> > Indeed!
>
> So you do not consider the source itself as the documentation :)
>
Copied verbatum!
I (still) read documentation better than source code,
although I am learning how to read \TeX macros and now
even lua functions. I am also supposed to work on
*writing* the documentation!
> > But it does not quite work as lettrines.
>
> Indeed. Otherwise, there would no need for a separate module. Actually, it
> will be nice if the functionality of lettrine can be merged with
> \placeintial.
Would be very nice. Do you have good ideas about how to better parse
the beginning of text? One needs to be clever.
> > \lettrine{L'}{objet} de cette commande\dots
> >
> > Other heuristics might apply in different cases.
>
> And there are sentences starting with quotations, etc.
As in:
\quote{The rain in Spain...}
Maybe others on the mailing list can suggest many particular cases.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-21 18:39 Philipp Gesang
2010-09-21 19:47 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-23 12:32 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-09-23 13:49 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-23 15:54 ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-09-23 16:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-23 16:32 ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-09-23 16:46 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-23 17:09 ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-09-23 17:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-23 18:27 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2010-10-03 16:27 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-23 17:43 ` Philipp Gesang
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