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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Initial caps with short paragraph
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 11:49:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd424149-7291-b384-2eee-bd5adf70c62e@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANrE7p9ASzMOoDnh-dez+Mdd+c0qk25QeqmFJiZ1j20Uj9W_g@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/9/2021 1:58 AM, Thangalin wrote:
> This has come up before on the mailing list, but I was wondering if LMTX 
> has a more elegant solution than using a transparent/invisible capture 
> of the drop-cap.
> 
> Consider:
> 
> |\setupinitial[n=2, style=\tfd, location=text] 
> \setuphead[chapter][after={\placeinitial}] \starttext \chapter Hello 
> world! \input ward \stoptext |
> 
> The output shows that the second paragraph is not indented beyond the 
> bounding box of the drop-cap, resulting in an overlap. This isn't a 
> problem when the first paragraph spans two or more lines.
> 
> Any ideas for how to resolve this without changing the content?
all is possible but in a complex system with lots of possible 
interactions it will never be robust (especially carrying over stuff 
across paragraphs and page boundaries)

I'll provide

\forgetinitial

and maybe some more clever hack but then i first have to play more with 
some new features (there are a bunch awaiting experiments).

Hans

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2021-07-08 23:58 Thangalin
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