From: Rudolf Bahr <quasi@quasi.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to calculate the height of text of a certain width?
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:41:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200324184144.GB7686@nan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2003241131000.413538@nqv-guvaxcnq>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:36:30AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
> You can do:
>
>
> \definelayer[LAY]
>
> \starttext
>
> \setbox\scratchbox=\vbox{\framed[width=300pt, align=flushleft]{\input
> ward\relax}}
> The height of the box is \the\ht\scratchbox; the width is
> \the\wd\scratchbox.
> \unvbox\scratchbox
>
> \setlayerframed[LAY][x=0pt, y=20pt][width=300pt, align=flushleft]{\input
> ward\relax}
> \flushlayer[LAY]
>
> \stoptext
>
> Aditya
Yes, that's essentially the same method I used, but I must have done a
mistake with serious consequences concerning flushleft align text. And so
I wrote to the list with my question.
Thank you for your effort, Aditya!
Rudolf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-24 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-24 11:19 Rudolf Bahr
2020-03-24 14:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-24 15:29 ` Rudolf Bahr
2020-03-24 15:36 ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-03-24 18:41 ` Rudolf Bahr [this message]
2020-03-24 15:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-24 18:04 ` Rudolf Bahr
2020-03-24 18:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-25 10:30 ` Rudolf Bahr
2020-03-25 11:00 ` Rudolf Bahr
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