Dear listmembers, I am not quite yet a ConTeXt user (struggling with the installation), but having a background as typographer, graphic designer, and printer, I feel that the lettrine.sty package could serve very well as a model for something similar in ConTeXt.
At any rate, in order to produce high quality intitials, a ConTeXt equivalent should not have any less parameters than lettrine.sty. To re-cap the parameters in lettrine.sty: ============================================================== - lines=<integer> sets how many lines the dropped capital will occupy (default=2); - lhang=<decimal> (0 < lhang =< 1) sets how much of the dropped capital’s width should hang into the margin (default=0); - loversize=<decimal> (-1 < loversize =< 1) enlarges the dropped capital’s height: with loversize=0.1 its height is enlarged by 10% so that it raises above the top paragraph’s line (default=0); - lraise=<decimal> does not affect the dropped capital’s height, but moves it up (if positive), down (if negative); useful with capitals like J or Q which have a positive depth, (default=0); - findent=<dimen> (positive or negative) controls the horizontal gap between the dropped capital and the indented block of text (default=0pt); - nindent=<dimen> shifts all indented lines, starting from the second one, horizontally by <dimen> (this shift is relative to the first line, default=0.5em); - slope=<dimen> can be used with dropped capitals like A or V to add <dimen> (positive or negative) to the indentation of each line starting from the third one (no e ect if lines=2, default=0pt); - ante=<text> can be used to typeset <text> before the dropped capital (typical use is for French guillemets starting the paragraph); - image=<true> (new to version 1.6) will force \lettrine to replace the letter normally used as dropped capital by an image in eps format (latex) or in pdf, jpg, etc. format (pdflatex); this needs the graphicx package to be loaded in the preamble of course. \lettrine[image=true]{A}{n exemple} or just \lettrine[image]{A}{n exemple} will load A.eps or A.pdf instead of letter A. This was suggested by Bill Jetzer. Redefining \LettrineFont as \LettrineFontEPS still works for compatibility but is deprecated. ============================================================== Also, sometimes one wants to indent all indented lines to the same position (instead of intenting the first line less) and this should ideally be possible too. Plus setting a specific color for the initial, but that is handled by ConTeXt's standard features (I guess). Best regards, Mats Broberg > Ah ok, I see. No you cannot do that with DroppedCaps, as is. > > Will post something later ... > > Taco > > Peter Münster wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > > > >>Probably, but .. I do not know what it is that lettrine does that > >>\DroppedCaps does not do. > > > > > > Hello Taco, > > could you please give an example how to do the same with > \DroppedCaps, > > what is shown on page 30 of > > http://pmrb.free.fr/work/cours/latex-intro.pdf ? Peter _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context