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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Lettrines in MkIV
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:38:46 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009231335190.26185@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009231909.30361.alan.braslau@cea.fr>

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

> On Thursday 23 September 2010 18:46:00 you wrote:
>>
>> Sorry... \placeinitial gobbles \input.... but here is a standalone
>> example:
>>
>> \setupinitial
>>    [   state=start,
>>            n=3,
>>     distance=-.1pc,
>>    ]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \placeinitial This is what Knuth said: \input knuth
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>
> I didn't know about initial...
>
> %D \macros
> %D   {setupinitial,placeinitial,checkinitial}
> %D
> %D {\em To be documented.}
>
> Indeed!

So you do not consider the source itself as the documentation :)

> Nice, I would like to use something like this,
> even setting it up to be automatic at the beginning
> of chapters, for example.

The example that I showed earlier did that. Essentially, just use

\setuphead[chapter][after=\placeinitial]

> But it does not quite work as lettrines.

Indeed. Otherwise, there would no need for a separate module. Actually, it 
will be nice if the functionality of lettrine can be merged with 
\placeintial.

> In a silly language such as French, the following fails:
>
> \placeinitial L'objet de cette commande\dots
>
> as one needs:
>
> \lettrine{L'}{objet} de cette commande\dots
>
> Other heuristics might apply in different cases.

And there are sentences starting with quotations, etc.

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 18:39 Philipp Gesang
2010-09-21 19:47 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-23 12:32   ` Philipp Gesang
2010-09-23 13:49     ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-23 15:54       ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-09-23 16:24         ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-23 16:32           ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-09-23 16:46             ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-23 17:09               ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-09-23 17:38                 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-09-23 18:27                   ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-10-03 16:27                 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-23 17:43           ` Philipp Gesang

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