From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setupbars
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:26:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D7B478E1-A4C2-4BE7-97E5-EB5218A58CF2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A4DF50DB-F8E3-4040-AFFF-A16F3DB975A0@uva.nl>
Am 09.07.2012 um 09:09 schrieb Meer, H. van der:
> 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.
The underlying Lua code accepts only “ex” and “em” as valid options for the “unit” key but I would also vote to accept either “pt”, “mm” etc. as unit value or to allow “rulethickness=…pt”.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-09 7:26 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 ` setupbars Meer, H. van der
2012-07-09 7:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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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