Re: [NTG-context] character width

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

Hi,

for fine-adjusting I need to have a variable horizontal space sometimes the width of "999" sometimes of "1", for example. Is there a command that reads the width of a character so it can be used in some kind of horizontal space?

There is a \fontcharwd primitive to measure the width of a single character is a specific font: \hskip \the\fontcharwd \font `1 but it may be easier to put the number(s) in a box and measure the width of that: \setbox\scratchbox=\hbox{999}% \hskip \the\wd \scratchbox Greetings, Taco