Re: [NTG-context] How to make framed ignore the width of the rule

7 Jun 2007

      Hi Wolfgang

Quoting Wolfgang Schuster :
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:42:26 -0400
Aditya Mahajan  wrote:
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Also am I missing a scaling factor in width= expressions above.
Everything looks fine with unitsize=1mm, but the final figure is
clearly larger than 16mm. I am confused as to what is happening.
Hi Aditya,
you wanted something like this
\newdimen\scale \scale\1mm
\def\rule#1{\hrule width #1\scale}
\rule{10}
but you made this
\def\scale{1mm}
\def\rule#1{\hrule width #1\scale}
\rule{10}
The length of the \hrule in the first example is 10pt (10 \times 1pt = 10pt),
while in the second example it is 101pt width (10 & 1pt = 101pt).
Ah. Thank you. Now I understand what was happening. I had tried 
\dimexpr but I did \dimexpr scale * dimension \relax and got an error. 
Now I realize that the correct way to use \dimexpr is dimension * scale.

Now everything looks nice. Thanks.

Aditya