\placeinital special case
Hello, I came across a special case where \placeinital would need some tuning. (It was found in Eglinton, G. and Calvin, M. (1966) "Chemical Fossils", Scientific American 216, 32-43.) In the following minimal example, the period following the capital W should be dropped as well, being kept associated with the initial. \starttext \placeinitial W. H. Bradley of the U.S. Geological Survey has sought a contemporary counterpart of the richly organic ooze that presumably gave rise to the Green River shale. So far he has located only four lakes, two in the U.S. and two in Africa, that seem to be reasonable candidates. \stoptext This curiosity is by no means an important problem, and perhaps one can identify other such cases (but I have not thought much about it!). Fixing this is probably trivial or it might be a challenge depending on how \placeinitial is implemented (I have not looked into fixing it either). I only report this to help ConTeXt continue to evolve towards the highest quality computer typesetting available. Alan
On 1/24/2014 10:11 AM, Alan Braslau wrote:
Hello,
I came across a special case where \placeinital would need some tuning. (It was found in Eglinton, G. and Calvin, M. (1966) "Chemical Fossils", Scientific American 216, 32-43.)
In the following minimal example, the period following the capital W should be dropped as well, being kept associated with the initial.
\starttext \placeinitial W. H. Bradley of the U.S. Geological Survey has sought a contemporary counterpart of the richly organic ooze that presumably gave rise to the Green River shale. So far he has located only four lakes, two in the U.S. and two in Africa, that seem to be reasonable candidates. \stoptext
This curiosity is by no means an important problem, and perhaps one can identify other such cases (but I have not thought much about it!). Fixing this is probably trivial or it might be a challenge depending on how \placeinitial is implemented (I have not looked into fixing it either). I only report this to help ConTeXt continue to evolve towards the highest quality computer typesetting available.
hm, so in order to fulfill that need ... a new beta . as a coincidence a buglet in luatex was discovered and fixed -) \setupbodyfont[dejavu,9pt] \starttext \startbuffer \placeinitial[two] D. E. Knuth \ignorespaces\input knuth \par \placeinitial[two] Knuth \ignorespaces\input knuth \par \placeinitial[two] \quotation{D. E. Knuth} \ignorespaces\input knuth \par \placeinitial[two] \quotation {Knuth} \ignorespaces\input knuth \par \stopbuffer \type{m=2} \defineinitial[two][m=2] \getbuffer \page \type{m=1,method=auto} \defineinitial[two][m=1,method=auto] \getbuffer \page \type{m=1,method={auto,first,last}} \defineinitial[two][m=1,method={first,auto,last}] \getbuffer \page \stoptext so you can make nice docs now 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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