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From: "Meer, H. van der" <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setupbars
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:09:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A4DF50DB-F8E3-4040-AFFF-A16F3DB975A0@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD6EFEBB-A73A-4522-B38C-0BD20D638915@uva.nl>


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There is still an issue here.

\setupbars[unit=mm,rulethickness=1]
AB\startbar[underbar]CD\stopbar EF\crlf
\setupbars[unit=ex,rulethickness=1]
AB\startbar[underbar]CD\stopbar EF\crlf
\setupbars[unit=pt,rulethickness=1]
AB\startbar[underbar]CD\stopbar EF\crlf

The first and third setup do not give an underbar, the second does.
Question: why does "ex" qualify as a dimension unit but "pt" and "mm" do not? Sounds strange.

If I want an underbar exactly 1mm or 3pt's thick, why isn't that made possible? Doing the math myself is no option, becaus ex will not be known beforehand.

Hans van der Meer


On 8 jul. 2012, at 23:40, Meer, H. van der wrote:

Thansk,

I see. \setupbars doesn't give a hit on ConTeXt-wiki, so I couldn't find this.
Still I dare say, it is a pity that [rulethickness=] gets a different meaning here than elsewhere. I would like to ask to reconsider, because I strongly believe in consistency in the API (though I am ready to admit that it is not easy to maintain and confess guilty myself at more than one occasion). That is either change all rulethickness's everywhere to this scheme or otherwise. Or did this already happened and did I miss that? And of course, the easiest solution would be if the code itself could sort out the difference between having been given a fraction or a length.

Hans van der Meer



On 8 jul. 2012, at 22:44, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:


Am 08.07.2012 um 22:24 schrieb Meer, H. van der:

This gives an error:

\starttext
\setupbars[rulethickness=4pt]
\stoptext

! LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:1: malformed number near '4pt'.
ConTeXt  ver: 2012.07.04 23:48 MKIV  fmt: 2012.7.6  int: english/english

Elsewhere this is ok, as for example in: \framed[rulethickness=4pt]{}
Strangely in node-rul.mkiv I see: \c!rulethickness=2.5
whereas in pack-rul.mkiv:  \c!rulethickness=\linewidth

I am inclined to spot an error here, or at least an inconsistency in the API.


\setupbars[rulethickness=0.5]

\starttext

\setupbars[unit=ex]\underbar{ex}

\setupbars[unit=em]\underbar{em}

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-08 20:24 setupbars Meer, H. van der
2012-07-08 20:44 ` setupbars Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-08 21:40   ` setupbars Meer, H. van der
2012-07-09  7:09     ` Meer, H. van der [this message]
2012-07-09  7:26       ` setupbars Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-09  7:38         ` setupbars Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-07-09 15:35         ` setupbars Bill Meahan
2012-07-09 22:16         ` setupbars Hans Hagen
2012-07-10 13:25           ` setupbars Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-07-10 14:31             ` setupbars Hans Hagen

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