Re: Starthanging alignment on grid

On 7/2/26 00:49, Aryeh Zapinsky wrote:
> Thanks for your answer Wolfgang!
> 
> Where is verticalbox defined?

Hi,

https://codeberg.org/contextgarden/context/src/commit/4c3e3385f8ed849416de4f1dccaab49577cbe630/tex/context/base/mkxl/pack-box.mkxl#L1658-L1673.

> I keep getting the following error: ! Control sequence expected instead
> of undefined.

Probably you need to update your version to current latest (2026.07.02
09:54).

You want to backup first, just in case anything goes wrong with the new
version (I always do that when I update [a good practice, in general]).

> Additionally where is lh and sd used in the height parameter defined?

https://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/lowlevel-registers.pdf#page=9
(descriptions in previous page).

`lh` stands for line height and `sd` for strut depth.

BTW, with a way shorter sample (using the Latin script [my text editor
goes crazy with r2l scripts and Hebrew vowels, besides the fact that I
have no experience with them]), I think this approach is way simpler and
avoids many issues:

  \def\CheatingInitial#1%
    {\starteffect[outer]\placeinitial%
      #1\stopeffect}
  \starttext

  \CheatingInitial{J}ust showing an alternative approach. \input zapf

  \placeinitial
  Just showing an alternative approach. \input zapf
  \stoptext

Wolfgang and Hans, this would be a piece of cake if `inner` could be a
font feature.

Even more, it would be great that `inner` could have numerical values
(and not just `yes` and `no`) to increase the line value.

Could you consider this as a feature to include in ConTeXt? I think it
makes things much easier in cases such as this one.

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo
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