On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Thursday 23 September 2010 18:46:00 you wrote:
Sorry... \placeinitial gobbles \input.... but here is a standalone example:
\setupinitial [ state=start, n=3, distance=-.1pc, ]
\starttext
\placeinitial This is what Knuth said: \input knuth
\stoptext
I didn't know about initial...
%D \macros %D {setupinitial,placeinitial,checkinitial} %D %D {\em To be documented.}
Indeed!
So you do not consider the source itself as the documentation :)
Nice, I would like to use something like this, even setting it up to be automatic at the beginning of chapters, for example.
The example that I showed earlier did that. Essentially, just use \setuphead[chapter][after=\placeinitial]
But it does not quite work as lettrines.
Indeed. Otherwise, there would no need for a separate module. Actually, it will be nice if the functionality of lettrine can be merged with \placeintial.
In a silly language such as French, the following fails:
\placeinitial L'objet de cette commande\dots
as one needs:
\lettrine{L'}{objet} de cette commande\dots
Other heuristics might apply in different cases.
And there are sentences starting with quotations, etc. Aditya