From: Christoph Redecker <christoph.redecker@tu-harburg.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: measuring alphabet length
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:15:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF5FF7B.1000400@tu-harburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23BF6F68-2A11-45A8-936A-1CBA0536CDE0@fiee.net>
Hi,
I want to measure and typeset the lower case alphabet length. The LaTeX
method doesn't work:
\newlength{\alphabetlength}
\settowidth{\alphabetlength}{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
\the\alphabetlength
ConTeXt gives me an error saying that \newlength{...} is undefined. Is
it undefined because ConTeXt is built around TeX and not LaTeX and
\newlength is a LaTeX command (I do not know if it actually is)?
How can I do the same thing in ConTeXt?
Regards
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-13 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 11:25 fit to width by negative letterspacing or narrowing Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-05-17 11:53 ` Hans Hagen
2011-05-18 7:41 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-06-13 12:15 ` Christoph Redecker [this message]
2011-06-13 12:30 ` measuring alphabet length luigi scarso
2011-06-13 12:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-13 12:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-13 12:43 ` Christoph Redecker
2011-06-13 12:59 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-13 13:02 ` netiquette (was: measuring alphabet length) Paul Menzel
2011-06-13 13:14 ` measuring alphabet length Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-15 9:29 ` Hans Hagen
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