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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@FU-Berlin.DE>
Subject: Re: how can I use framewidth in calculations
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:27:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6DA190.1090605@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F6D7B60.40907@FU-Berlin.DE>

On 24-3-2012 08:44, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Am 24.03.2012 08:30, schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:
>> On 03/24/12 03:27, Rogers, Michael K wrote:
>>> Try
>>>
>>> \framed[width=7cm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=\dimexpr\framedparameter{width}*9/10]}
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [I don't understand \dimexpr. For instance 7cm = ~198pt, 0.9 * 7 cm =
>>> ~179pt, but \dimexpr0.9\framedparameter{width} yields 27.5992pt. It
>>> doesn't seem to work well with decimals. No wiki page for it, that I
>>> can find.]
>>
>> Thank you, that is exactly what I needed! I'll see if I can find some
>> more information about \dimexpr now!
>
> \framed[width=7cm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=0.75\expandafter\dimexpr\framedparameter{width}]}

there is no need for \expandafter here as \dimexpr will expand what 
comes after it anyway


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-24 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23 22:55 Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-03-24  2:27 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-03-24  7:30   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-03-24  7:44     ` Herbert Voss
2012-03-24  9:18       ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-03-24 10:27       ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-03-24 10:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-24 11:23 ` Wolfgang Schuster

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