Re: Drop words, Drop boxes

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:36 PM 5/10/2002 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>I read Hans' old MAPS article about dropped caps, etc, which reminded me 
>of something I'd thought about before:
>
>Arabic does not have capitals, and it's mostly cursive, so dropped first 
>letters at the beginning of a paragraph generally don't make any sense. On 
>the other hand, a
>dropped first word of a first paragraph does make sense. Does ConTeXt have 
>a general mechanism for dropping the first word or contents of a first 
>\hbox of a given
>paragraph?

\def\DroppedString{CRAP}
\DroppedCaps
{\color[red]} {cmbx12}
{2\baselineskip} {0pt} {\baselineskip} {2}{CRAP}Is this ugly

>Another, related question: In the article, the font must be specified in 
>the dropcaps macro. For my puposes the ocplist for the dropped character 
>would have to specified
>as well. Is it straightforward? Can't the macro just use the global font?

some day ... (first we need to get otp's robustly coupled to font switched 
(actually, it could be an attribute to the font file synonym, or a font 
handler, will think of it)

Hans

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