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- From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: what use is a scaled point?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.114806.50112@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 11:48:06 GMT
- References: <9988996@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Organization: University College Dublin
- Lines: 24
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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
-