Width of text

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From: Gene C. Van Nostern
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:39

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Is there any way to find the width of a bit of text in TeX?  I'd like
a command, say \widthof, that would work like this:

\newdimen\textwidth
\textwidth=\widthof{some text}

From then on, I could use \textwidth to be the width of the string
"some text".

Please respond by e-mail.

Thanks,
Gene.
gene@icarus.claremont.edu

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