From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4582 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: two drop caps questions Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:40:35 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010423184035.018e38e0@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395237 26945 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:47:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "James H. Cloos Jr." In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4582 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4582 At 07:35 AM 4/22/01 -0500, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: >I saw an interesting variation on dropped caps recently (in >McCaffrey's latest, {\em The Skies of Pern}). The capheight >of the dropped cap is about 2.5 times \baselineskip with its >baseline matching the second row of text's baseline. > >(Some of the) sections w/in a chapter have a 'dropped cap' >which isn't dropped; its capheight is about twice the text >font's capheight and its baseline matches the first line of >text. > >The latter is of course quite easy to do. Am I correct that >the former can be done a la NiceDroppedCaps but with voffset >set baselineskip smaller than NiceDroppedCaps sets it? Or >should height be be adjusted instead? right, just play with the values until you get what you want, since this is also dependent of the font. >For the second question, given: > >\def\DC% > {\NiceDroppedCaps{}{FontName}{0pt}{3}} > >what needs to change so that something like: \DC is not a good choice since this is a tables command. >\DC >\quotation{This chapter starts with some dialog,} he said. not that easy. For instance, \def\DroppedString{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\XXX} \def\XXX{``} \def\YYY{\NiceDroppedCaps{}{cmr10}{0pt}{3}} \EveryPar{\YYY} \noindent \XXX Bla bla bla bla bla''\input tufte will work, but this too ugly an hack to use isn't it? >\DC >``This chapter starts with some dialog,'' he said. not sure, since '' is actually a ligature. I'll add it to the todo list. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------