Re: Special layouts don't recognise placeinitial

[Eduardo Bohoyo <ebohoyod@disroot.org>]

Thank you, Hans. This tweak works perfectly on a provisional basis.

However, from my relative ignorance of ConTeXt and LMTX, I have a 
question: Why is it better at the moment to include this code in 
cont-new.mkxl instead on the preamble of my document?

I insist, I do not question this detail. I speak from the lack of 
knowledge of a user who wants to learn a little more.

Eduardo Bohoyo

El 23/5/21 a las 13:07, Hans Hagen escribió:
> On 5/23/2021 2:41 AM, Eduardo Bohoyo wrote:
>> My question will be very simple: Is there a trick to make 
>> \placeinitial command work within makeup pages?
>>
>> One of my pages inside the /frontmater/ is a quote page within an 
>> special layout. Before using LMTX, when I could use the Lettrine 
>> module, that quote started with a capital letter. But now that I use 
>> \placeinitial, the first letter no longer changes: it remains a 
>> simple initial capital letter.
>> On the other hand, when I use \placeinitial for each first paragraph 
>> in the chapters of my book, the result is as expected. That is, the 
>> command works fine as long as it stays within the general layout.
>> This is the code I'm referring to:
>>
>> \startmakeup[standard][doublesided=yes]
>>
>> \setuplayout[backspace=176pt,width=194pt]
>> \setupinterlinespace[line=22pt]
>> \style[tfa]
>>
>> \startalignment[hanging,flushleft,nothyphenated]
>> \placeinitial Ahora, vosotros que amáis, dejadme que os formule una 
>> pregunta: ¿quién sufre más por  ello,  Arcite  o  Palamón? ¿El  que  
>> ve  a  su  dama  diariamente,  pero  está  encerrado para  siempre,  
>> o  el  que  es  libre  de  ir  donde  le plazca, pero  no  verá  
>> nunca  más  a  su  dama?  Aquellos  de vosotros que  podáis,  elegid  
>> entre  las  dos  situaciones  a voluntad; yo,  por  mi  parte, 
>> continuaré como he empezado.
>> \stopalignment
>>
>> \startalignment[hanging,flushright,nothyphenated]
>> \blank[0.8cm,force]{\tfa\sc  Geofrey Chaucer,\hspace[big]}
>> \blank[0.1cm,force]{\tfa\em The Canterbury Tales \hspace[big]}
>> \stopalignment
>>
>> \stopmakeup
> You can add this to cont-new.mkxl (assuming lmtx)
>
> \unprotect
>
> \permanent\tolerant\protected\def\flushinitial
>   {\typo_initial_handle}
>
> \protect
>
> and then
>
>     \placeinitial  \flushinitial Ahora, ...
>
> will work. More clever automated solutions are likely to interfere and 
> have side effects for embedded cases so this is the best I can come up 
> with now.
>
> Hans
>
>
>
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