Gerben Wierda schrieb am 21.07.2021 um 12:00:

On 19 Jul 2021, at 09:56, Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2021-07-18, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:
PS. switching \kap and \bf has an interesting result, the first
character of the words is not in bold. This did not happen with
lettrine in mkii

I do not have an answer to your question, but I'd like to point out that
you can keep using lettrine with ConTeXt LMTX, if you wish. You just
need to add the modules manually, currently:

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX

I’ve tried this. Installed the modules and then I get with

[...]

Short version:

You get an error message for the \!!dimena command which is used by
the module but doesn't exist anymore.

Long version:

Hans started a few years ago to replace many of the old cryptic names
(e.g. \@EAEA) with sometimes longer but more readable names
(e.g. \doubleexpandafter). A short while ago he removed a few of these
old commands (in this case a length register) in LMTX because they
aren't used anymore in the core.

The lettrine module is very old and never got a proper MkIV/LMTX
version and the use of one of these old commands results in an error.

While it's easy to fix the problem you're going to find the next problem
because LMTX has a new mechanism which is related to paragraph
related settings like indentation. As a result of this new mechanism
\lettrine places the initial to the left of the paragraph without
reserving space to indent the first few lines.

Wolfgang