From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7848 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Drop words, Drop boxes Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 15:03:33 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020511150122.03b00558@remote-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020510191548.02e3f828@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398290 22846 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:38:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Idris Samawi Hamid In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7848 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------