Drop capital

Drop capital

[Charles Doherty]

Dear all,

I am preparing a newsletter for our group on the history of settlement 
in Ireland. I would like to use a drop capital at the start of 
articles. I think I remember a file explaining how to do this in 
Context but I can't find it now. Can anyone tell me the code to use or 
give me the url of the file (if I am not just imagining this).

Thanks,
Charlie Doherty


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Early Irish History,
School of History,
University College Dublin,
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Dublin 4
Ireland
Telephone +353 1 7168381

Re: Drop capital

[Otared Kavian]

>Dear all,
>
>I am preparing a newsletter for our group on the history of 
>settlement in Ireland. I would like to use a drop capital at the 
>start of articles. I think I remember a file explaining how to do 
>this in Context but I can't find it now. Can anyone tell me the code 
>to use or give me the url of the file (if I am not just imagining 
>this).
>
>Thanks,
>Charlie Doherty


I found that a few months ago Hans answered this to someone on the list:

>At 02:20 pm +0200 17/09/03, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>you can take a look in core-fnt.tex and supp-fun which has streched, 
>all kinds of underline, dropped caps and alike
>
>Hans
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------


(but I have never used the dropped caps feature myself... so if 
succeed let me know)

Best regards: OK

Re: Drop capital

[Lutz Haseloff]

Hi Otared, Hi Charlie,

Otared Kavian schrieb:

>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am preparing a newsletter for our group on the history of 
>> settlement in Ireland. I would like to use a drop capital at the 
>> start of articles. I think I remember a file explaining how to do 
>> this in Context but I can't find it now. Can anyone tell me the code 
>> to use or give me the url of the file (if I am not just imagining this).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charlie Doherty
>
>
>
> I found that a few months ago Hans answered this to someone on the list:
>
>> At 02:20 pm +0200 17/09/03, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>> you can take a look in core-fnt.tex and supp-fun which has streched, 
>> all kinds of underline, dropped caps and alike
>>
>> Hans
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>
Here my working sample:
--------------------------
\def\MyDroppedCaps%
  {\DroppedCaps
     {} {uplr8t}
     {2\baselineskip} {3pt} {\baselineskip} {2}}
\useencoding[win]
\mainlanguage[de]
\starttext
\MyDroppedCaps Z{\sc wei} Konstanten regieren die Proportionen eines gut 
gemachten Buches\kern.2em: Hand und Auge.
Das gesunde Auge ist immer um zwei Spannen von der Buchseite entfernt, 
und alle Menschen fassen Bücher
auf die gleiche Weise an.
\stoptext
--------------------------

>
> (but I have never used the dropped caps feature myself... so if 
> succeed let me know)
>
> Best regards: OK
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>
Greetings Lutz

Re: Drop capital

[Bill McClain]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:40:29 +0000
Charles Doherty <charles.doherty@ntlworld.ie> wrote:

> I would like to use a drop capital at the start of 
> articles.

I have an example in this document:

    http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html

-Bill
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