20 Feb
2010
20 Feb
'10
6:02 a.m.
Dear Team, it is a common convention in luatex that dimensions are specified either as a number (in scaled points) or a string with unit included. But unless I'm blind, there is no helper function that converts string dimension to a number. Seems that there is a standard dimen_to_number() function for that purpose. Would be convenient to have such on aboard. If I make such a helper, will you consider adding it to a repo? I'm thinking of tex.sp'1in' -> 4736286 tex.sp() -> error argument must be a string or more general tex.unit('1in', 'cm') -> 2.54 wdyt? -- Pawe/l Jackowski P.Jackowski@gust.org.pl