From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21306 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Tremblay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: is it possible to add lengths? Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:59:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20050709205938.GA5245@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050709055350.GB27726@localhost.localdomain> <42CF905F.6010508@seznam.cz> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120943061 20838 80.91.229.6 (9 Jul 2005 21:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 21:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jul 09 23:04:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DrMUf-0002un-00 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:04:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C082C127CC; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:03:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29433-07; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:03:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFB8127A7; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:59:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB37A127A7 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:59:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29433-06 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:59:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from rdsmtp.iglou.com (rdsmtp.iglou.com [192.107.41.63]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E882B12797 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:59:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.107.41.6] (helo=iglou3.iglou.com) by rdsmtp.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DrMQB-00008W-TK for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.253.97.143] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by iglou3.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DrMQB-0006DD-PN for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 501) id E40AC1B3; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:59:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42CF905F.6010508@seznam.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21306 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21306 On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:52:47AM +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: > > Mikael Persson wrote: > >On 7/9/05, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > > >>Is it possible to add lengths in ConTexT? > >> > >>backspace= 55m + 1in > >> > >>Thanks > >> > >>Paul > >> > >> > > > > > >Hello Paul, > > > >I think > >backspace=\dimexpr(55mm+1in) > >should work. > > This sometimes works but correct syntax is > > backspace=\dimexpr 55mm+1in \relax > > vit > Thanks. This works very nicely. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry@iglou.com * ************************