On 8/23/2013 2:41 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
Hi Hans,
This is a very nice feature indeed. Out of curiosity, I wondered whether it is possible to to have \placeinitial to work with \definefirstline, or a variant of it: that is not only have the first character of the first sentence as a dropped capital, but also the first line (or first few words) for instance in smallcaps.
I played with that before uploading but it was somewhat tricky. Anyway, I redid some code so now you can do this: \setupbodyfont [pagella] \setupalign [tolerant,stretch] \setupfirstline [alternative=line, color=darkred, style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps}] \setupfirstline [fancy] [n=3] \setupfirstline [fancier] [alternative=word, color=darkblue, style=bold, n=3] \setupfirstline [weirder] [alternative=line, color=darkgreen, style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps}, n=3] \setupinitial [location=text, n=2, color=darkred, voffset=-.5ex, before={\blank[2*big]}] \starttext \setfirstline \input ward \par \placeinitial \input ward \par \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setinitial % \placeinitial \input ward \par \setinitial % \placeinitial \setfirstline \input ward \par \setfirstline[fancy] \input ward \par \setfirstline[fancier] \input ward \par \setinitial % \placeinitial \setfirstline[weirder] \input ward \par \stoptext
Another curiosity question: is it on purpose that \definefirstline [fancy] [alternative=line, color=darkred, style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps}, n=2] does not produce two lines of text in smallcaps?
I cannot imagine someone using it but it should work now. I must admit that I never use dropcaps or even this firstline stuff so it was more a challenge than a neccessity. I have no clue (yet) to what extend it all interferes with other trickery but I suppose that such features are only used in controlled situations. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------