From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Passing variables into context
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:36:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930113634.GU4289@katherina.student.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC34107.6050006@elvenkind.com>
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Hi Taco,
> You should try \the\textwidth
Thanks, that works. Could you enlighten me as to what \the does and why this
helps? Does Context treat \the specially within metapost code (which seems so,
since there are more \the examples in the metafun manual), or is it expanded
before getting inserted into metapost?
Using this in arithmetic gets slightly more complicated (0.5\the\textwidth
doesn't work, but since this gets put into metapost, 0.5 * \the\textwidth does
work).
Gr.
Matthijs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 11:27 Matthijs Kooijman
2009-09-30 11:29 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-09-30 11:36 ` Matthijs Kooijman [this message]
2009-09-30 12:07 ` Taco Hoekwater
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