On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Alan Stone
<software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a command which returns the number of lines for a given portion of
> text ?

\starttext

\setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\input knuth\par}

\getnoflines\htdp\scratchbox

\getnoflines{\htdp\scratchbox} % this works

Your text has \noflines\ lines.

or: Your text has \noflines lines.

\stoptext