[NTG-context] Re: get measures as dimension in Lua

[Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

Am 10.06.24 um 10:58 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

>>      local namespace = tokens.getters.macro("??measure")
>>
>>      function tex.getmeasure(name,asdimen)
>>          local value = tex.getdimensionvalue(namespace..name)
>>          if asdimen then
>>              return value .. "sp"
>>          else
>>              return value
>>          end

So I needed just tex.getdimensionvalue(namespace..name)


> Not to be misunderstood, I couldn’t check yet, maybe I wasn’t clear:
> 
> I need to process the measure as a dimension, like \measured{Bleed}.
> 
> As far as I tried, neither tex.measured nor context.measured worked (but 
> I wouldn’t swear on it, maybe I had a different error).

I understand now that a dimension in Lua is just a string.

I also messed a few thing up when I converted my macros from 
measure-macros to measures.

Now my image calculations work again. Phew!

Thank you,
Hraban
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