[NTG-context] Sidebars and versals Oh my!

[Hans Hagen]

Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> Am So, den 26.12.2004 schrieb h h extern um 21:33:
> 
>>John Culleton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>But this is not the only type of versal. Sometimes a large capital letter 
>>>(perhaps in italics) is centered on the top of the textblock thus:
>>
>>Did you look into supp-fun.tex?
> 
> 
> I was trying to use the macros provided by supp-fun.tex some month before,
> but I could not get numbers instead of letters to work - see the little 
> example below. How can I solve that problem?

The magic is in:

\def\DroppedString{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ}


Hans

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