From: Andreas Mang <mang@imt.uni-luebeck.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: makeupwidth in externalfigure yields invalid escape sequence
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:50:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DD204C3E-65F1-4358-B1CD-1FCA4065A1DE@imt.uni-luebeck.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C84017A0-2160-4A08-B06F-906A1C1BFC57@imt.uni-luebeck.de>
Dear...
...invisible man probably known as Hans...
Thanks for fixing this!
Cheers,
Andreas
FYI followers:
\starttext
\externalfigure[cow][width=0.5\makeupwidth]
\stoptext
works with the latest beta (MKIV)
Am Jan 1, 2013 um 2:10 PM schrieb Andreas Mang <mang@imt.uni-luebeck.de>:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the quick responses.
>
>> The \externalfigure commands passes the values of the width/height keys to Lua which can’t handle relative values [...] to convert a relative (e.g. \textwidth) in a absolute value (e.g. 12pt) you can use the \dimexpr command.
>>
>> \externalfigure[…][width=\the\dimexpr.3\textwidth\relax]
>
> I'm seem to be not educated enough about dos and don'ts: To me it seemed mandatory to use relative sizes as I might have to change the layout of my document (*). So, do I get it right that the idea of this change is to stick to a rigid A4 setting (i.e. all figures are e.g. of width 5 cm) and then simply change the print out size to A5:
>
> \setuppapersize[A4][A5]
>
> A quick "yes, keep it rigid" or "no, do it adaptively" would be enough to get me on track (in case I am not telling bull****). I'll adapt my doc accordingly.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
> (*) I am currently working on a document, which Iis going through assessment in A4 and very likely published in A5
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-03 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-31 12:38 Andreas Mang
2012-12-31 13:08 ` Peter Münster
2013-01-01 8:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-01-01 13:10 ` Andreas Mang
2013-01-03 21:50 ` Andreas Mang [this message]
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