[NTG-context] Dropped Caps with Numerals

[Taco Hoekwater]

jeffdod at comcast.net wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I was wondering if there is a way to do dropped caps (in ConTeXt) but 
> with numerals instead of letters. The standard DroppedCaps macro only 
> seems to work with letters.

You can either add the digits to the string of 'to be dropped'
characters by adding this definition to your preamble:

   \def\DroppedString{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789}

or you can use the lettrine module that you can find here:

   http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-lettrine

Cheers, Taco