* Problem with *lettrine* module in Mk-iv
@ 2013-11-14 21:53 Francisco Gracia
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From: Francisco Gracia @ 2013-11-14 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I am glad to report that the problems that I experienced until recently
with the *lettrine* module have disappeared. At present it works like any
other regular module.
As the *lettrine* source file does not seem to have been modified, I
conclude that the reason of the improvement should be attributed to the
modification of some other unknown piece of the complex *ConTeXt*
machinery. The interpreter at work is
mkiv lua stats > luatex banner: this is luatex, version beta-0.77.0 (tex
live 2013/w32tex) (rev 4645)
This should be good news (at least it has been for me) as *lettrine* is a
more powerful and complete command than *inital* for the intended job and,
above all, is much better documented.
Regards
Francisco
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* Problem with *lettrine* module in Mk-iv
@ 2012-09-09 19:28 Francisco Gracia
2012-09-10 11:43 ` Sietse Brouwer
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From: Francisco Gracia @ 2012-09-09 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I am making my first steps in ConTeXt. I am only interested in Mk-iv and
am using version 2012.09.06 23:03. I tried to explore the possibilities of
the
additional module *lettrine* following its documentation
(*lettrine-doc.pdf*)
and prepared the following example, which reproduces almost exactly the
first one found in that text:
\usemodule[lettrine]
\starttext
\lettrine {T}{he two} typeset arguments are the dropped capital
and the run-in text following it; the \TeX\ source of this paragraph
started
with \starttyping "\usemodule[lettrine]
\starttext
\lettrine{T}{he two} …" \stoptyping …
\stoptext
When I typeset it with ConTeXt, the result was not what the documentation
showed. The initial capital was fine and so was the rest of the first line,
but
the second line was blank and the regular text continued at the third and
following lines. This was with the default value of 2 lines as size for the
capital. If one indicates a greater number of lines, all of them but the
first
one are blank and the regular text continues after all that whitespace.
As I was not completely sure that my installation of ConTeXt was
unobjectable, I tried to typeset the example in *ConTeXt online*
(http://live.contextgarden.net/). There the option to use *LuaTex /
Mark-iv*
is not offered (!!??), so I selected the *pdfTex* alternative and then it
happened that everything behaved as expected (at least in the first part of
the example, as some of the following commands seem not to be
understood by *pdfTex*).
My conclusion is that *lettrine* does not work correctly with Mark-iv and
there is somewhere a bug that has to be corrected. But I could be
mistaken. Am I doing something wrongly?
Thanks for your interest
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* Re: Problem with *lettrine* module in Mk-iv
2012-09-09 19:28 Francisco Gracia
@ 2012-09-10 11:43 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-09-10 13:22 ` Jörg Hagmann
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From: Sietse Brouwer @ 2012-09-10 11:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Taco Hoekwater
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Hello Francisco,
Welcome to ConTeXt! You are sure to enjoy it here.
> My conclusion is that *lettrine* does not work correctly with Mark-iv and
> there is somewhere a bug that has to be corrected. But I could be
> mistaken. Am I doing something wrongly?
No, you are correct, there is a bug. It happens on my end, too; I have
attached the resulting output.
\usemodule[lettrine]
\starttext
\lettrine[Lines=3]{T}{he two} typeset arguments are the
dropped capital. \input knuth
\stoptext
I had a look at the module code, but it's too low-level for me, so I'm
CC-ing Taco Hoekwater who wrote the module. Depending on how trivial
the bug is, and how busy Taco is, he might be able to help.
Kind regards,
Sietse
Sietse Brouwer
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* Re: Problem with *lettrine* module in Mk-iv
2012-09-10 11:43 ` Sietse Brouwer
@ 2012-09-10 13:22 ` Jörg Hagmann
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From: Jörg Hagmann @ 2012-09-10 13:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I had to switch to "\placeinitial", e.g.
Instead of:
% \usemodule[lettrine]
% \setuplettrine[Raise=0.1,FontHook=\darkgrey,TextFont=\tf]
I used:
\setupinitial[color=darkgrey,n=2,voffset=-1.5ex]
and then:
\placeinitial My text …
See also http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20120322.214713.ca22f882.en.html
Cheers, Jörg
On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
> Hello Francisco,
>
> Welcome to ConTeXt! You are sure to enjoy it here.
>
>> My conclusion is that *lettrine* does not work correctly with Mark-iv and
>> there is somewhere a bug that has to be corrected. But I could be
>> mistaken. Am I doing something wrongly?
>
> No, you are correct, there is a bug. It happens on my end, too; I have
> attached the resulting output.
>
> \usemodule[lettrine]
> \starttext
> \lettrine[Lines=3]{T}{he two} typeset arguments are the
> dropped capital. \input knuth
> \stoptext
>
> I had a look at the module code, but it's too low-level for me, so I'm
> CC-ing Taco Hoekwater who wrote the module. Depending on how trivial
> the bug is, and how busy Taco is, he might be able to help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sietse
> Sietse Brouwer
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