Radhelorn wrote:

Adrian Drury wrote:

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Hello,

I'm having trouble using dropped caps within \startlines\stoplines. I'm trying to typeset some poetry and I'm using \setuplines[space=yes]. I'd like to use dropped caps and have the indented lines be additionally indented by any space at the beginning of the lines.

See the following example - the first part shows roughly the result I want (but with manual formatting/spacing), the second part shows the result of \DroppedCaps inside \startlines\stoplines, and the third part uses the lettrine module. The lettrine module comes close, but Nindent doesn't seem to affect the indented lines within \startlines\stoplines.

\usemodule[lettrine] \def\MyDroppedCaps% { \DroppedCaps {} {Serif} {2\baselineskip} {2pt} {1\baselineskip} {2} } \setuplines[space=yes]

\starttext \MyDroppedCaps S{\sc umer} is icumen in,\crlf \hbox to .6em{}Lhude sing cuccu!\crlf Groweth sed, and bloweth med,\crlf \hbox to .6em{}And springth the wude nu---\crlf \hbox to 3.3em{}Sing cuccu!

\startlines \MyDroppedCaps S{\sc umer} is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu--- Sing cuccu! \stoplines

\startlines \lettrine{S}{umer} is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu--- Sing cuccu! \stoplines \stoptext

Any suggestions for how to do this? I'm a beginning ConTeXt user, so if there's a better/different way to do this, I'd be happy to hear it!

Also, I read the list in digest form. For the benefit of people using threaded mail readers, is there a better way to reply to individual messages than replying to the digest message and editing the Subject line appropriately?

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Try

\startlines \vbox{\lettrine{S}{umer} is icumen in,\crlf Lhude sing cuccu!} Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu--- Sing cuccu! \stoplines

-- Radhelorn < radhelorn@mail.ru>

Thank you very much for your suggestion - it does most of what I want to do. I have a follow-up question if anybody would like to provide more help! Because lines in \startlines\stoplines with \setuplines[space=yes] can be indented by space characters, I want to set Nindent for the dropped cap to (N * <width of space character>), so lines can be indented by the exact same amount they would be with spaces in \startlines\stoplines. Is there a way to calculate the width of some number of characters (or a string of characters) to use as a dimension parameter? For example, a macro that returns the width in points of 5 space characters in the current font? I figured hardcoding the width of a space as a percentage of an em might work, but would probably not be consistent across fonts. Is that true, or is it really that simple? I'd also be happy with a way to preserve spaces in the text inside the vbox (and ignore any Nindent dimension calculation), because then I could just add the appropriate number of spaces for indentation after the \crlf, like this: \vbox{\lettrine{S}{umer} is icumen in,\crlf <2 spaces>Lhude sing cuccu!}, as I do in \startlines\stoplines. Thanks very much, Adrian Drury