Re: [NTG-context] Dropped caps, \startlines\stoplines, and indentation question

2006-01-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Adrian Drury wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] Dropped caps, \startlines\stoplines, and indentation question

2006-01-28 Thread Adrian Drury
Radhelorn wrote:Adrian Drury wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] Dropped caps, \startlines\stoplines, and indentation question

2006-01-25 Thread Radhelorn
Adrian Drury wrote: 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

[NTG-context] Dropped caps, \startlines\stoplines, and indentation question

2006-01-21 Thread Adrian Drury
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