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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: measuring alphabet length
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:38:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9A201E81-5847-4768-A619-26D7AE0ACFFF@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C4EC87FC-AA7E-4714-B59D-12AC460D3E2A@googlemail.com>


Am 13.06.2011 um 14:34 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:

> \starttext
> 
> \dowithnextbox
>   {\edef\AlphabetLength{\the\nextboxwd}}%
>    \hbox{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
> 
> \AlphabetLength
> 
> \stoptext

Or even better:

\starttext

\dowithnextbox
  {\definemeasure[alphabetlength][\the\nextboxwd]}%
   \hbox{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}

\measure{alphabetlength}

\stoptext

Wolfgang


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13 12:38 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     ` measuring alphabet length Christoph Redecker
2011-06-13 12:30       ` luigi scarso
2011-06-13 12:34         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-13 12:38           ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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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