From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Subject: Re: getting number from context.figurewidth
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:06:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ceb316ed-f8e9-23d6-83e1-555ddc4143c1@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b76b1c2-a912-08ed-7040-ee107d392203@gmx.es>
On 10/27/2021 9:20 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> On 10/26/21 6:31 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
>> [...]
>> Is there a way that I can get a number from context.figureheight, such
>> as I get it from tex.dimen.paperheight?
>
> Sorry for insisting, I need it for a Lua script that in the relevant
> line reads:
>
> loader_times:write('.box placeholder width=' .. context.figurewidth
> .. ' height=' .. context.figureheight)
>
> I cannot concatenate string and function (and I need the number, not the
> unit).
>
> Is there no way of doing it?
i'm pretty sure this has been asked before
\ctxlua{local f = figures.getinfo("cow.pdf") print(f and f.used and
f.used.width)}
so .. time to wikify it
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-26 16:31 Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2021-10-27 19:20 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2021-10-27 19:41 ` Jairo A. del Rio via ntg-context
2021-10-27 20:06 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-10-28 17:15 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
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