From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24028 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Zillig Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space? Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:18:40 +0100 Message-ID: <439065D0.70807@student.kuleuven.be> References: <87d5kgl2q6.fsf@rimspace.net> <4390540E.3000501@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133536925 21141 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2005 15:22:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 02 16:22:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiCgV-0004DY-8J for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:18:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B2D128F1; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14742-02-10; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05883128D2; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1427128D2 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14742-02-9 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.41]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0890D12896 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CAC4C736 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp02.kuleuven.be (lepidus.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.72]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92C74C385 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.33.194.76] (dhcp-194-076.bwk.kuleuven.ac.be [10.33.194.76]) by smtp02.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A5E2CAA3B for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:18:40 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4390540E.3000501@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by KULeuven Antivirus Cluster X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24028 Archived-At: Could't it be done by metapost? Wolfgang Hans Hagen schrieb: > Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much >> appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual >> trial and error. >> >> > this is something tex is pretty good at and it runs as fast as normal > > how does your current code look? (the solution depends a bit it); > think of something > > \doloop{ > \setbox\scratchbox=\vbox > {the content of the label} > \ifx\ht\scratchbox>10cm > \switchtobodyfont[small] \else > \unvbox\scratchbox > \exitloop > \fi > } > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >