I read Hans' old MAPS article about dropped caps, etc, which reminded me of something I'd thought about before:
Arabic does not have capitals, and it's mostly cursive, so dropped first letters at the beginning of a paragraph generally don't make any sense. On the other hand, a dropped first word of a first paragraph does make sense. Does ConTeXt have a general mechanism for dropping the first word or contents of a first \hbox of a given paragraph? Another, related question: In the article, the font must be specified in the dropcaps macro. For my puposes the ocplist for the dropped character would have to specified as well. Is it straightforward? Can't the macro just use the global font? Thnx & best wishes Idris ========================== Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid Depatment of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80526
