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From: Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@attbi.com>
Subject: Drop words, Drop boxes
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:36:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D853RPWTGD64UQWR41ROCAPOMECQK75.3cdc9fe1@c1909372-a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020510191548.02e3f828@server-1>

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? 

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?

Thnx & best wishes
Idris

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Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid
Depatment of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80526


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-11  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-08 21:17 Pesky sidebars John Culleton
2002-05-09  8:54 ` Patrick Gundlach
2002-05-09 13:17   ` OT: maps23 emacs/auctex article Idris Samawi Hamid
2002-05-09 14:10     ` Taco Hoekwater
2002-05-09 23:12 ` Pesky sidebars Hans Hagen
2002-05-10 13:51   ` John Culleton
2002-05-10 17:16     ` Hans Hagen
2002-05-10 19:57       ` John Culleton
2002-05-11  9:11         ` Hans Hagen
2002-05-11 10:19         ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-05-13 19:22           ` John Culleton
2002-05-13 21:29             ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-05-14 15:41               ` John Culleton
2002-05-11  4:36       ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2002-05-11 13:03         ` Drop words, Drop boxes Hans Hagen

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