From: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Getting width of text to be typeset
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 13:04:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <020C5B94-2D68-4D45-87A7-3E2A601A6472@rna.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <357d26e1-2571-b30c-2eb6-c787ed3bbf18@rik.users.panix.com>
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> On 23 May 2020, at 01:49, Rik Kabel <ConTeXt@rik.users.panix.com> wrote:
>
> If the OP simply wants the width of a string, one can use \setwidthof#1\to#2.
>
> \define\String{pqrs}
> \setwidthof{\String}\to\Wdth
> \String\ is \Wdth\ wide.
>
> \setwidthof{{\tfb\em\String}}\to\Wdth
> {\tfb\em\String} is \Wdth\ wide.
>
> I do not know if that is different from the width of the same string unboxed from the paragraph. There may be some adjustments made in justification, expansion, and such that are not treated.
Additionally: suppose I am in lua. Would it be possible to get the width (and height) of a string back in lua as a value?
So, in lua something like this:
width = tex.widthofstring(“I have a string with some $\frac{1}2{}$ (math) in it")
G
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-22 9:22 context
2020-05-22 22:03 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-22 22:18 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-22 23:49 ` Rik Kabel
2020-05-23 11:04 ` Gerben Wierda [this message]
2020-05-23 13:52 ` Rik Kabel
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