On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> Am 22.01.2009 um 17:20 schrieb Alan Stone:
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>  On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Alan Stone <
>> software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try: Your text has {\the\noflines} lines.
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>> Your text has \the\noflines\ lines.  % works also
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> How do you substract/add a number from/to \noflines ?
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>> I tried
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>> \thinrules[n=\advance\the\noflines by -2]
>> \thinrules[n=\advance\noflines by -2]
>> \thinrules[n={\advance\the\noflines by -2}]
>> \thinrules[n={\advance\noflines by -2}]
>>
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> \thinrules[n=\number\numexpr\noflines-2\relax]


And how do you make a division of \number\numexpr\noflines-2, for ex. by 2 ?

Wolfgang
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