I've found a workaround by passing the value as an argument to the lua code :

\def\stopzonetexte
  {\ctxlua{userdata.traiterbuffer(buffers.getcontent('zonetexte'),[==[\the\hsize]==])}

Now, I try to figure how to get em size in points.



On 19 May 2015, at 12:31, Pierre-François Bonnefoi <bonnefoi@unilim.fr> wrote:

Hello Hans,

I try to get the equivalent of \the\hsize in Lua, in order to render some verbatim text to the current width of the column.

Thank you for your help,
Pierre-François.

On 19 May 2015, at 12:16, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

On 5/18/2015 8:00 PM, Pierre-François Bonnefoi wrote:
Hello,

Is it possible to get the current width of a column from a paragraph
into Lua ?

it all depends on where and how you access that but normally the width of a hlist will do



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