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In article <9988996@MVB.SAIC.COM>, DL24794%UAFSYSB.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Daniel H. Luecking) writes:
> 
>> In article <1993Jan5.143540.15048@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>,
>> des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
>> > 1sp *is* useful sometimes when you need something to be different from
>> > 0pt but not visibly so! i.e. giving a font a slant of 1sp makes
>> > LaTeX think that it is an italic font when using \em - this can
>> > sometimes be useful.
>>
>> How so?  LaTeX doesn't really care what the actual font is that \em
>> uses.  `Giving a font a slant' requires running off a special version
>> of the font using Metafont.  If you don't want that font to actually
>> look different, why not just \let\em\relax ?

You can also use a dimen to grab a linecount, such as in
\setbox0=\vbox{...some text...}
\newdimen\lines
\lines=\ht0 \advance\lines by\dp0
\divide\lines by\baselineskip

and you have the approximate number of lines in the box, because the
calculations were done in sp's.

///Peter