From: Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Quotation mark in drop caps
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:56:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAANrE7ruxNHJSsA9hSHCmPzSy9=LiTUU7cL3TeFLKf-H52P-Rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Thank you Hans.
That's pretty close. Is there a way to make the opening quotation mark
smaller? Ideally, control the font and colour?
Cheers!
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 12:25 AM Hans Hagen via ntg-context <
ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> On 7/10/2024 9:10 AM, Thangalin wrote:
> > From TeX.SE, the following solution works; however, it doesn't feel
> > like the "ConTeXt way":
> >
> > % SOT
> > \setuplocalboxes[leftmargin][
> > style=\bfd,
> > color=darkred,
> > distance=0pt,
> > ]
> >
> > \unprotect
> > \define\quoteinitial{%
> > \futureexpandisap“\quoteinitial_true\quoteinitial_false%
> > }
> >
> > \define\quoteinitial_true{%
> > \localmargintext[leftmargin]{“}%
> > \expandafter\placeinitial%
> > \gobbleoneargument%
> > }
> >
> > \let\quoteinitial_false\placeinitial
> > \protect
> >
> > \starttext
> > \quoteinitial “We held ConTeXt in high esteem.” \samplefile{bryson}
> >
> > \quoteinitial We held ConTeXt in high esteem. \samplefile{bryson}
> > \stoptext
> > %EOT
> >
> > Any suggestions for how to improve it?
> >
> > See also: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/722275/2148
> > <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/722275/2148>
> \starttext
>
> \setupbodyfont[dejavu,9pt]
>
> \defineinitial[two][m=1,method=auto]
>
> \setinitial[two] Knuth :\ignorespaces\input knuth \par
> \setinitial[two] \quotation {Knuth} :\ignorespaces\input knuth \par
>
> \stoptext
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-10 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-07 20:29 [NTG-context] " Thangalin
2024-07-10 7:10 ` [NTG-context] " Thangalin
2024-07-10 7:25 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2024-07-10 8:56 ` Thangalin [this message]
2024-07-10 9:34 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2024-07-10 23:55 ` Thangalin
2024-07-11 6:35 ` vm via ntg-context
2024-07-11 8:06 ` Thangalin
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