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 14:34:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C4EC87FC-AA7E-4714-B59D-12AC460D3E2A@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinpao+E3oZSDvowNNio5BGCPR9WHQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 13.06.2011 um 14:30 schrieb luigi scarso:
>> How can I do the same thing in ConTeXt?
> plain TeX is ok, for example,
> \newdimen\AlphaBet
> \bgroup \setbox10=\hbox{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
> \global\AlphaBet=\wd10\egroup
> \the\AlphaBet
\starttext
\dowithnextbox
{\edef\AlphabetLength{\the\nextboxwd}}%
\hbox{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
\AlphabetLength
\stoptext
Hans wrote also a command for this but it never went into core: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070314.120612.adab0a8b.en.html
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-13 12:34 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 [this message]
2011-06-13 12:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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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