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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \glueexpr in lmtx
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:54:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92341086-5e3c-3662-719d-ab5937404604@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190722231624.abjqiqzrayrk4z6g@yoga>

On 7/23/2019 1:16 AM, Marcel Fabian Krüger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I stumbled upon some odd behaviour of \glueexpr in lmtx. Take the
> following document:
> 
> \starttext
> \the\glueexpr 0.0pt \relax
> \newskip\myskip
> \myskip=\glueexpr 0.0pt \relax
> \stoptext
> 
> Without lmtx this works fine. Under lmtx, the *first* use of
> `\glueexpr`, after `\the`, works fine too. On the other hand, the other
> `\glueexpr`, after `\myskip=`, complains about a "Illegal unit of
> measure (pt inserted)". It does not seem to accept the fractional part,
> everything works again if I use
> 
> \starttext
> \the\glueexpr 0.0pt \relax
> \newskip\myskip
> \myskip=\glueexpr 0pt \relax
> \stoptext
> 
> Am I missing something here or is this a bug?
fixed in next lmtx beta (was a wrong symbolic constant someplace)

(context never uses gluexpr so it went unnoticed)

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-23 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-22 23:16 Marcel Fabian Krüger
2019-07-23 10:54 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-07-23 11:26 ` Marcel Fabian Krüger

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