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  1. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!news
  3. From: gene@icarus.claremont.edu (Gene C. Van Nostern)
  4. Subject: Width of text
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul28.193951.2901@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  6. Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
  7. Reply-To: gene@icarus.claremont.edu
  8. Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
  9. Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:39:51 GMT
  10. Lines: 14
  11.  
  12. Is there any way to find the width of a bit of text in TeX?  I'd like
  13. a command, say \widthof, that would work like this:
  14.  
  15. \newdimen\textwidth
  16. \textwidth=\widthof{some text}
  17.  
  18. From then on, I could use \textwidth to be the width of the string
  19. "some text".
  20.  
  21. Please respond by e-mail.
  22.  
  23. Thanks,
  24. Gene.
  25. gene@icarus.claremont.edu
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