Special layouts don't recognise placeinitial
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
On 5/23/2021 2:41 AM, Eduardo Bohoyo wrote:
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 You can add this to cont-new.mkxl (assuming lmtx)
\unprotect \permanent\tolerant\protected\def\flushinitial {\typo_initial_handle} \protect and then \placeinitial \flushinitial Ahora, ... will work. More clever automated solutions are likely to interfere and have side effects for embedded cases so this is the best I can come up with now. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you, Hans. This tweak works perfectly on a provisional basis. However, from my relative ignorance of ConTeXt and LMTX, I have a question: Why is it better at the moment to include this code in cont-new.mkxl instead on the preamble of my document? I insist, I do not question this detail. I speak from the lack of knowledge of a user who wants to learn a little more. Eduardo Bohoyo El 23/5/21 a las 13:07, Hans Hagen escribió:
On 5/23/2021 2:41 AM, Eduardo Bohoyo wrote:
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 You can add this to cont-new.mkxl (assuming lmtx)
\unprotect
\permanent\tolerant\protected\def\flushinitial {\typo_initial_handle}
\protect
and then
\placeinitial \flushinitial Ahora, ...
will work. More clever automated solutions are likely to interfere and have side effects for embedded cases so this is the best I can come up with now.
Hans
----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 5/24/2021 12:41 PM, Eduardo Bohoyo wrote:
Thank you, Hans. This tweak works perfectly on a provisional basis.
However, from my relative ignorance of ConTeXt and LMTX, I have a question: Why is it better at the moment to include this code in cont-new.mkxl instead on the preamble of my document?
I insist, I do not question this detail. I speak from the lack of knowledge of a user who wants to learn a little more. cont-new will be replaced at he next uipload so then you use the built in .. no need to add to a preamble
----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Ah, I got it. Thanks for the clarification, Hans. It's clear that this makes sense. Eduardo Bohoyo El 24/5/21 a las 14:22, Hans Hagen escribió:
On 5/24/2021 12:41 PM, Eduardo Bohoyo wrote:
Thank you, Hans. This tweak works perfectly on a provisional basis.
However, from my relative ignorance of ConTeXt and LMTX, I have a question: Why is it better at the moment to include this code in cont-new.mkxl instead on the preamble of my document?
I insist, I do not question this detail. I speak from the lack of knowledge of a user who wants to learn a little more. cont-new will be replaced at he next uipload so then you use the built in .. no need to add to a preamble
----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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