From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: calculating with dimension unit
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:51:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsCj1Q2A-pTchA=CMaG=EkmETz00jb+NzB=JOU+FtESo8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51751F8A.3060905@gmx.de>
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Jan Heinen <JaHeinen@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for the helpfull tipps. Only one wasn't working:
>
>
> \defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context([==[\ColumnA +
> \ColumnB]==])}}
>
> ColumnABii: \ColumnABii
>
> The result is: ColumnABii: 30mm+ 40mm
> And it should be ColumnABii: 70mm
ColumnABii: \the\dimexpr \ColumnABii\relax
>
> And in the other cases I get back: 199.16928pt instead of 70mm but this
> seems to be the same.
TeX internally uses scaled points (1pt = 2^16 scaled point)
and prints values in american point (1pt = 1/72.27 inch 1inch =2.54cm)
--
luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-22 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-22 11:31 Jan Heinen
2013-04-22 13:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-04-22 14:51 ` luigi scarso [this message]
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2013-04-23 18:18 Jan Heinen
2013-04-22 21:28 Jan Heinen
2013-04-22 21:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-04-21 23:13 Jan Heinen
2013-04-21 23:59 ` luigi scarso
2013-04-22 6:48 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-04-22 8:14 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-22 10:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-04-22 14:00 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-04-22 8:23 ` Hans Hagen
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