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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next prev parent 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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