From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/61913 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Lettrines in MkIV Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20100921183900.GA31727@aides> <20100923123200.GB21645@aides> <4C9B5AD3.2090901@wxs.nl> <201009231754.33350.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285259047 18358 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2010 16:24:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:24:07 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 23 18:24:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyoaZ-0002XF-F0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:24:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C848CA785; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:24:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kp1b-TfS9-6g; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07952CA78D; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3C9CA6EA for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Q9LJDRZCTuli for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter5-til.mf.surf.net (filter5-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.221]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D519CA5D9 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o8NGNpJP001865 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:53 +0200 Original-Received: FROM web047081.wireless.mcgill.ca (web047081.Wireless.McGill.CA [142.157.47.81]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4C9B7F15.9815D.6019 ; Authuser adityam; 23 Sep 2010 12:23:50 EDT In-Reply-To: <201009231754.33350.alan.braslau@cea.fr> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0xDagnQzj - 1a0cb824ce87 - 20100923 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.221 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:61913 Archived-At: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Thursday 23 September 2010 15:49:07 Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> we know and we will take a look at it next week (as it takes some time >> to nail down node allocation bugs) >> > > As Hans indicated, he is aware of the problem with the lettrine module > and will fix it. In the meantime, you can get by using simply: > > %\usemodule [lettrine] > % broken, so let's fake it: > \def\lettrine#1#2{{\tfc #1}#2} > > Of course, this is no good for production, but it is a simple > solution if you are working on drafts. Isn't it better to use initials? This is what one of setups has" \definehead[initialtitle][title] \setuphead[initialtitle] [after=\placeinitial] \definefontsynonym[initial][name:fontin] \setupinitial [ state=start, n=3, distance=-.1pc, ] And then I can simply use \initialtitle {Don Knuth said} \input knuth Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________