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Article #11165Re: what use is a scaled point?
From: Peter Schmitt
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:51
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:51
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>From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn)
>Date: 12 Jan 93 11:48:06 GMT
>
>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
>Βdivide\lines by\baselineskip
>
>and you have the approximate number of lines in the box, because the
>calculations were done in sp's.
>
Sorry, but I don't see what this has to do with the fact that TeX
internally calculates in sp:
height+depth / height of line
will always give the number of lines (approximately, if lines are
not fixed spaced) - regardless of the length unit used.
Peter
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!vm.univie.ac.at!A8131DAL From: A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt) Subject: Re: what use is a scaled point? Message-ID: <1993Jan12.125543.23429@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> Sender: news@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at (News System - Vienna University) Nntp-Posting-Host: helios.edvz.univie.ac.at Organization: University of Vienna Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:51:12 GMT Lines: 20