Wonderful, Hans! That’s got it. Many thanks.

Alan


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
On 6/21/2014 3:54 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
\definefontfamily[mainface][serif][IFAO Grec Unicode][]
\setupbodyfont[mainface,10pt]
\definefontsynonym[DropFont][name:IFAO Grec Unicode]

\defineinitial
[Greek]
[location=margin,
font={DropFont sa 3},
n=2,
color=black,
distance=-1em,
hoffset=1.25em]

\starttext

\placeinitial[Greek]Ⲥελήνη
{\red Coptic capital sima}\quad\input ward

\placeinitial[Greek]Ἡλίου
{\red Greek capital eta with dasia (combining)}\quad\input ward

\placeinitial[Greek]Ⲏ̔λίου
{\red Coptic capital hate with dasia (combining)}\quad\input ward

\placeinitial[Greek]῾Ⲏλίου
{\red Coptic capital hate with dasia (non-combining)}\quad\input ward

\stoptext

\defineinitial
[Greek2]
[Greek]
[m=2]

\placeinitial[Greek2]῾Ⲏλίου

{\red Coptic capital hate with dasia (non-combining)}\quad\input ward

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