From: Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \stretched
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 19:46:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1D7EBF-3DC0-4E89-AF73-7EBC463118AE@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsAWPjd7=JmYekuX-dqa4wR-09SVL7cStQuoBfcRvm1otw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Luigi,
thanks for the explanation, now (finally) I understand the mechanism…
Willi
On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:49 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Willi Egger <context@boede.nl> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I just downloaded yesterday night's version of Context and tried the example provided. - What is wrong with the first line with the \hbox? This stretched text is as long as the second line and uses the whole text width. The third line has a width of 10cm as it seems.
>
>
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\stretched{to the limit}}
> means that the box has 5cm, but \stretched must use some horizontal size (i.e \hsize)
> to stretch the text. The twos are different lengths: it doesn't make much sense to strecth the text "to the limit" to its natural width (yes, it makes sense --- stretched is nil)
> try
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\hsize=5cm\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\hsize=0cm\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox{\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox{\stretched[width=10cm]{to the limit}}
>
> --
> luigi
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-28 7:30 \stretched Hans Hagen
2012-07-05 15:23 ` \stretched Willi Egger
2012-07-05 15:49 ` \stretched luigi scarso
2012-07-08 17:46 ` Willi Egger [this message]
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