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- From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: what use is a scaled point?
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:59 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- In article <1993Jan12.125543.23429@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>, A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt) writes...
- >>From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn)
- >>\divide\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.
-
- Yes it gives a number (integer). But it is in a length register.
- So what length is it?? If the number is 5, the length is 5sp.
-
- Continuing, if you want to subsequently set \lines to have a minimum
- value of 2,
- \ifnum\lines<2 \lines=2sp \fi
-
- If you want to increment the line count,
- \advance \lines 2sp
-
- Donald
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