From: Martin Oppegaard <martin.oppegaard@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Initials and short paragraph
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:15:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAMH7MKp0ORGr-81eT-tYRU-9MZ52=rFQFPFFB5BmhpcGAn-AA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57c5886f-2db2-df91-4a4b-fd9c790e7e5d@gmx.es>
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Thanks for the suggestions! Is there a way to get the amount of horizontal
space the initial takes so that can be put in manually in front of the next
paragraph?
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:
> On 06/09/2017 07:05 AM, Martin Oppegaard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When placing an initial and the paragraph is short, the initial is
> > laid over the next paragraph. Example:
> >
> > \starttext
> > \placeinitial
> > Knuth writes:
> >
> > \input knuth
> > \stoptext
> >
> > Is there anything to do about this?
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> I guess initials make sense only when used inside a paragraph. It is
> problematic when you have white space defined.
>
> Having margin initials is also another approach. You may compare both
> with the following sample:
>
> \setupwhitespace[medium]
> \setupinitial[location=margin]
> \starttext
> \placeinitial
> Knuth writes:
>
> \input knuth
> \setupinitial[location=text]
> \placeinitial
> Knuth writes:\\
> \input knuth
> \stoptext
>
> I hope it helps,
>
> Pablo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-20 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-09 5:05 Martin Oppegaard
2017-06-20 9:46 ` Henri Menke
2017-06-20 16:06 ` Rogers, Michael K
2017-06-20 17:51 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2017-06-20 20:15 ` Martin Oppegaard [this message]
2017-06-20 20:45 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2017-06-24 11:33 ` Martin Oppegaard
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