Dear listmembers, I am not quite yet a ConTeXt user (struggling with the installation), but having a background as typographer, graphic designer, and printer, I feel that the lettrine.sty package could serve very well as a model for something similar in ConTeXt. At any rate, in order to produce high quality intitials, a ConTeXt equivalent should not have any less parameters than lettrine.sty. To re-cap the parameters in lettrine.sty: ============================================================== - lines=<integer> sets how many lines the dropped capital will occupy (default=2); - lhang=<decimal> (0 < lhang =< 1) sets how much of the dropped capitals width should hang into the margin (default=0); - loversize=<decimal> (-1 < loversize =< 1) enlarges the dropped capitals height: with loversize=0.1 its height is enlarged by 10% so that it raises above the top paragraphs line (default=0); - lraise=<decimal> does not affect the dropped capitals height, but moves it up (if positive), down (if negative); useful with capitals like J or Q which have a positive depth, (default=0); - findent=<dimen> (positive or negative) controls the horizontal gap between the dropped capital and the indented block of text (default=0pt); - nindent=<dimen> shifts all indented lines, starting from the second one, horizontally by <dimen> (this shift is relative to the first line, default=0.5em); - slope=<dimen> can be used with dropped capitals like A or V to add <dimen> (positive or negative) to the indentation of each line starting from the third one (no e ect if lines=2, default=0pt); - ante=<text> can be used to typeset <text> before the dropped capital (typical use is for French guillemets starting the paragraph); - image=<true> (new to version 1.6) will force \lettrine to replace the letter normally used as dropped capital by an image in eps format (latex) or in pdf, jpg, etc. format (pdflatex); this needs the graphicx package to be loaded in the preamble of course. \lettrine[image=true]{A}{n exemple} or just \lettrine[image]{A}{n exemple} will load A.eps or A.pdf instead of letter A. This was suggested by Bill Jetzer. Redefining \LettrineFont as \LettrineFontEPS still works for compatibility but is deprecated. ============================================================== Also, sometimes one wants to indent all indented lines to the same position (instead of intenting the first line less) and this should ideally be possible too. Plus setting a specific color for the initial, but that is handled by ConTeXt's standard features (I guess). Best regards, Mats Broberg
Ah ok, I see. No you cannot do that with DroppedCaps, as is.
Will post something later ...
Taco
Peter Münster wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Probably, but .. I do not know what it is that lettrine does that \DroppedCaps does not do.
Hello Taco, could you please give an example how to do the same with \DroppedCaps, what is shown on page 30 of http://pmrb.free.fr/work/cours/latex-intro.pdf ? Peter