My question will be very simple: Is there a trick to make \placeinitial command work within makeup pages?

One of my pages inside the frontmater is a quote page within an special layout. Before using LMTX, when I could use the Lettrine module, that quote started with a capital letter. But now that I use \placeinitial, the first letter no longer changes: it remains a simple initial capital letter.
On the other hand, when I use \placeinitial for each first paragraph in the chapters of my book, the result is as expected. That is, the command works fine as long as it stays within the general layout.
This is the code I'm referring to:

\startmakeup[standard][doublesided=yes]

\setuplayout[backspace=176pt,width=194pt]
\setupinterlinespace[line=22pt]
\style[tfa]

\startalignment[hanging,flushleft,nothyphenated]
\placeinitial Ahora, vosotros que amáis, dejadme que os formule una pregunta: ¿quién sufre más por  ello,  Arcite  o  Palamón?  ¿El  que  ve  a  su  dama  diariamente,  pero  está  encerrado  para  siempre,  o  el  que  es  libre  de  ir  donde  le  plazca,  pero  no  verá  nunca  más  a  su  dama?  Aquellos  de  vosotros  que  podáis,  elegid  entre  las  dos  situaciones  a  voluntad;  yo,  por  mi  parte, continuaré como he empezado.
\stopalignment

\startalignment[hanging,flushright,nothyphenated]
\blank[0.8cm,force]{\tfa\sc  Geofrey Chaucer,\hspace[big]}
\blank[0.1cm,force]{\tfa\em The Canterbury Tales \hspace[big]}
\stopalignment

\stopmakeup

Eduardo Bohoyo