From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14874 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lutz Haseloff Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Drop capital Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:21:24 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <404C02D4.3090905@lbapdm.brandenburg.de> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078723407 23675 80.91.224.253 (8 Mar 2004 05:23:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 05:23:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Mon Mar 08 06:23:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B0DEX-0005b6-00 for ; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:23:21 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD1710B3C; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:20:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from pns3.brandenburg.de (pns3.brandenburg.de [194.76.232.167]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37C310ABC for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:19:24 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from www5.brandenburg.de (firewall-user@www5.brandenburg.de [194.76.232.139]) by pns3.brandenburg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i285LgUn025895 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:21:42 +0100 Original-Received: from NN Mailserver by LDS_FW Mailserver Original-Received: from nodnsquery(10.128.9.41) by www5.brandenburg.de via csmap (V6.0) id srcAAAa23954; Mon, 8 Mar 04 06:21:41 +0100 Original-Received: from NN Mailserver by LDS_I Mailserver Original-Received: from lbapdm.brandenburg.de (unknown [10.213.101.107]) by imap.lbapdm.brandenburg.de (Postfix on SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.0) with ESMTP id 4494B8EC3C for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:23:24 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by hp-www.ldspdm.ldsbb.lvnbb.de id i285Lei19323 Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14874 Hi Otared, Hi Charlie, Otared Kavian schrieb: >> Dear all, >> >> I am preparing a newsletter for our group on the history of=20 >> settlement in Ireland. I would like to use a drop capital at the=20 >> start of articles. I think I remember a file explaining how to do=20 >> this in Context but I can't find it now. Can anyone tell me the code=20 >> to use or give me the url of the file (if I am not just imagining this= ). >> >> Thanks, >> Charlie Doherty > > > > I found that a few months ago Hans answered this to someone on the list= : > >> At 02:20 pm +0200 17/09/03, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> you can take a look in core-fnt.tex and supp-fun which has streched,=20 >> all kinds of underline, dropped caps and alike >> >> Hans >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------= ---=20 >> > Here my working sample: -------------------------- \def\MyDroppedCaps% {\DroppedCaps {} {uplr8t} {2\baselineskip} {3pt} {\baselineskip} {2}} \useencoding[win] \mainlanguage[de] \starttext \MyDroppedCaps Z{\sc wei} Konstanten regieren die Proportionen eines gut=20 gemachten Buches\kern.2em: Hand und Auge. Das gesunde Auge ist immer um zwei Spannen von der Buchseite entfernt,=20 und alle Menschen fassen B=FCcher auf die gleiche Weise an. \stoptext -------------------------- > > (but I have never used the dropped caps feature myself... so if=20 > succeed let me know) > > Best regards: OK > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > Greetings Lutz