[NTG-context] Lettrine misbehaving in beta
James 'Twey' Kay
twey at twey.co.uk
Thu Mar 22 16:44:23 CET 2012
I have this problem too… most frustrating :-\ I guess the drop-cap is
being counted as part of the line, and thereby increasing the line
height.
— Twey
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:34:12 +0100, Michael Guravage wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> If you run the following example with the current beta you will see
> that the second and subsequent lines of the paragraph are pushed down
> below the extent of the drop cap. This behavior appeared sometime
> after 2011.10.24. Can anyone explain what is happening and suggest a
> solution?
>
> usemodule[lettrine]
> showgrid
>
> defmyhook {definefontsynonym[LettrineFont][eusm10]}
> setuplettrine
> [Lines=5,
> FontHook={redmyhook},
> Findent=0.2em,
> Nindent=0.2em,
> Oversize=1.0,
> Hang=0.15]
>
> setuplayout
> [grid=yes]
>
> starttext
>
> lettrine{W}{e thrive} in information||thick worlds because of our
> marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit, single out,
> structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize,
> focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize,
> catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize,
> isolate, discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over,
> sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip, smooth, chunk,
>
> average, approximate, cluster, aggregate, outline, summarize,
> itemize, review, dip into, flip through, browse, glance into, leaf
> through, skim, refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the
> wheat
> from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats.
>
> stoptext
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Michael Guravage
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