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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Paragraphs in Layers
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:04:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28F004A8-F5ED-4DA4-A861-E39A0B6D6048@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe8d59da0904091444s4c368fe2ua9f8bcb4dc683853@mail.gmail.com>


Am 09.04.2009 um 23:44 schrieb luigi scarso:

> \unprotect%
> \currentlayerheight=\dimexpr\csname @@llTicketSummaryheight\endcsname 
> \relax%
> \currentlayerwidth=\dimexpr\csname @@llTicketSummarywidth\endcsname 
> \relax%
> \protect%

why unprotect/protect and why so many '%'?

\edef\currentlayerheight{\csname @@llTicketSummaryheight\endcsname}%
\edef\currentlayerwidth {\csname @@llTicketSummarywidth\endcsname}%

> \setbox\Content=\vbox{\hsize=\currentlayerwidth%
>   \bold{Client Name:} \\
>   Acme Corporation \\
>   \bold{Location of Work:}
>   Main warehouse
>   }%
> \ht\Content=\currentlayerheight%

why not \vbox to \currentlayerheight

> ! You can't use `\dimexpr' in restricted horizontal mode.
> l.12 \currentlayerheight=\dimexpr
>                                 \csname @@llTicketSummaryheight 
> \endcsname\r...
> ?

\newdimen checks for the existence of a control sequence

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-09 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-09 19:40 Design Department
2009-04-09 19:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-04-09 20:14   ` Design Department
2009-04-09 20:27     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-04-09 20:54       ` Design Department
2009-04-09 21:24         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-04-09 21:44           ` luigi scarso
2009-04-09 22:04             ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2009-04-09 22:53               ` luigi scarso
2009-04-09 23:06                 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-04-09 23:36                   ` luigi scarso
2009-04-09 20:33     ` Willi Egger

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