* two drop caps questions
@ 2001-04-22 12:35 James H. Cloos Jr.
2001-04-23 16:40 ` Hans Hagen
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From: James H. Cloos Jr. @ 2001-04-22 12:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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?
For the second question, given:
\def\DC%
{\NiceDroppedCaps{}{FontName}{0pt}{3}}
what needs to change so that something like:
\DC
\quotation{This chapter starts with some dialog,} he said.
does the right thing, just like this does:
\DC
This chapter starts with some dialog,'' he said.
Can it be done at all w/o changing the definition of \quotation,
\quote et al? Would it be easier to make this work:
\DC
``This chapter starts with some dialog,'' he said.
-JimC
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* Re: two drop caps questions
2001-04-22 12:35 two drop caps questions James H. Cloos Jr.
@ 2001-04-23 16:40 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2001-04-23 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
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
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