From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69192 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: measuring alphabet length Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:29:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4DF87B7E.5060106@wxs.nl> References: <2BAEF00E-F2AE-4E30-9F86-548BB2A7B918@fiee.net> <4DD261BD.60309@wxs.nl> <23BF6F68-2A11-45A8-936A-1CBA0536CDE0@fiee.net> <4DF5FF7B.1000400@tu-harburg.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308130220 5170 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2011 09:30:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:30:20 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 15 11:30:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWmQP-0002f7-Bx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:30:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7E2CADB4; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:30:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GmPPSda9rmGs; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:30:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3ABCADD3; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:30:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD20CADD3 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:30:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LizvYjiMjqcC for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D28ACADB4 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p5F9TnH4008731 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:29:50 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 3746-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:29:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0cEU9tO6g - 685f9ae99e61 - 20110615 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:69192 Archived-At: On 13-6-2011 2:34, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 13.06.2011 um 14:30 schrieb luigi scarso: > >>> How can I do the same thing in ConTeXt? >> plain TeX is ok, for example, >> \newdimen\AlphaBet >> \bgroup \setbox10=\hbox{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz} >> \global\AlphaBet=\wd10\egroup >> \the\AlphaBet > > \starttext > > \dowithnextbox > {\edef\AlphabetLength{\the\nextboxwd}}% > \hbox{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz} > > \AlphabetLength > > \stoptext > > Hans wrote also a command for this but it never went into core: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070314.120612.adab0a8b.en.html Ok, I'll add it. There will also be an expandable variant (proper typeset but the string must be utf characters only) \starttext \setwidthof{Robin Kirkham}\to\whatever \whatever=\widthofstring{Robin Kirkham} \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________