On 11/22/2020 11:55 AM, juh wrote:

Hi all,

I want to typeset poems in a special way.

I want to achieve something like Capitalis quadrata which was used by the Romans in stone.

See here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalis_quadrata#/media/Datei:Capitalis_Quad...

One stream of letters without spaces and interpunctation.

The input files I have to use are written as usually:

This is a line, that is a line, and a third line as well

I want to typeset the whole poem in the Capitalis quadrata way:

THISISALINETHATIS ALINEANDATHIRDLIN EASWELL

The whole poem forms one block of upper case letters.

No interword spacing.

I guess that I can make my hands dirty with lua and write a filter that skips all interpunctation and spaces, converts the whole text to lower- or uppercase and after this use a special font with nice upper case letters.

But I need a special hyphenation that hyphenates just were the line ends.

Any hints how to achieve this? An lmtx solution:

\starttext \definestartstop [CapitalisQuadrata] [setups=foo] \startsetups foo \pushoverloadmode % needed when protection enabled \def\obeyedline{\removepunctuation\endgraf} \obeylines \nospacing \WORD \popoverloadmode \stopsetups \start[CapitalisQuadrata] This is a line, that is a line, and a third line as well \stop \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------