From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4566 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "James H. Cloos Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: two drop caps questions Date: 22 Apr 2001 07:35:01 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395221 26770 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:47:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4566 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4566 I saw an interesting variation on dropped caps recently (in McCaffrey's latest, {\em The Skies of Pern}). The capheight of the dropped cap is about 2.5 times \baselineskip with its baseline matching the second row of text's baseline. (Some of the) sections w/in a chapter have a 'dropped cap' which isn't dropped; its capheight is about twice the text font's capheight and its baseline matches the first line of text. The latter is of course quite easy to do. Am I correct that the former can be done a la NiceDroppedCaps but with voffset set baselineskip smaller than NiceDroppedCaps sets it? Or should height be be adjusted instead? For the second question, given: \def\DC% {\NiceDroppedCaps{}{FontName}{0pt}{3}} what needs to change so that something like: \DC \quotation{This chapter starts with some dialog,} he said. does the right thing, just like this does: \DC This chapter starts with some dialog,'' he said. Can it be done at all w/o changing the definition of \quotation, \quote et al? Would it be easier to make this work: \DC ``This chapter starts with some dialog,'' he said. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. 1024D/ED7DAEA6 E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6