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30 Sep
2009
30 Sep
'09
5:36 a.m.
Hi Taco,
You should try \the\textwidth Thanks, that works. Could you enlighten me as to what \the does and why this helps? Does Context treat \the specially within metapost code (which seems so, since there are more \the examples in the metafun manual), or is it expanded before getting inserted into metapost?
Using this in arithmetic gets slightly more complicated (0.5\the\textwidth doesn't work, but since this gets put into metapost, 0.5 * \the\textwidth does work). Gr. Matthijs