From: Matthew Baker <Matthew.Baker@gmd.de>
Subject: Re: Fixed width form field
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:16:14 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910151514550.523-100000@ahania.gmd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38037150.3618B501@wxs.nl>
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Hans Hagen wrote:
> A quick tip (untested)
>
> \setbox0=\hbox{#1}% label
> \dimen0=60mm
> \advance\dimen0 by -\wd0
> \advende\dimen0 by <offsets> % try some 2ex
> <set width of field to \dimen0> % if needed \edef\TheWidth{\the\dimen0}
> ... width=\TheWidth
Yes, that worked. I should be able to incorporate this into my putfield
macro now. Thanks!
- Matt
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Dr. Matthew Baker matthew.baker@gmd.de
GMD - FIT.MMK http://fit.gmd.de/hci/pages/matthew.baker.html
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1999-10-12 14:09 Matthew Baker
1999-10-12 17:35 ` Hans Hagen
1999-10-15 13:16 ` Matthew Baker [this message]
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