On 8/23/2013 2:41 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
Hi Hans,
This is a very nice feature indeed.
Out of curiosity, I wondered whether it is possible to to have \placeinitial to
work with \definefirstline, or a variant of it: that is not only have the first
character of the first sentence as a dropped capital, but also the first line
(or first few words) for instance in smallcaps.
I played with that before uploading but it was somewhat tricky. Anyway,
I redid some code so now you can do this:
\setupbodyfont
[pagella]
\setupalign
[tolerant,stretch]
\setupfirstline
[alternative=line,
color=darkred,
style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps}]
\setupfirstline
[fancy]
[n=3]
\setupfirstline
[fancier]
[alternative=word,
color=darkblue,
style=bold,
n=3]
\setupfirstline
[weirder]
[alternative=line,
color=darkgreen,
style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps},
n=3]
\setupinitial
[location=text,
n=2,
color=darkred,
voffset=-.5ex,
before={\blank[2*big]}]
\starttext
\setfirstline
\input ward \par
\placeinitial
\input ward \par
\setupindenting[medium,yes]
\setinitial % \placeinitial
\input ward \par
\setinitial % \placeinitial
\setfirstline
\input ward \par
\setfirstline[fancy]
\input ward \par
\setfirstline[fancier]
\input ward \par
\setinitial % \placeinitial
\setfirstline[weirder]
\input ward \par
\stoptext
Another curiosity question: is it on purpose that
\definefirstline
[fancy]
[alternative=line,
color=darkred,
style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps},
n=2]
does not produce two lines of text in smallcaps?
I cannot imagine someone using it but it should work now. I must admit
that I never use dropcaps or even this firstline stuff so it was more a
challenge than a neccessity.
I have no clue (yet) to what extend it all interferes with other
trickery but I suppose that such features are only used in controlled
situations.
Hans
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