Patches item #473, was opened at 2006-01-27 14:20 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=473&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Taco Hoekwater (taco) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: \ifabsnum and \ifabsdim Initial Comment: Here is a small change file that implements two new etex primitives : \ifabsnum \ifabsdim Usage is the same as \ifnum and \ifdim. The only difference is that they negate the values if they are negative before comparing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: Hans Hagen (hagen) Date: 2006-01-27 14:31
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=927 intended usage: \ifabsdim \dimexpr \maxheight - \currentheight \relax < .5pt assume that we're done \fi it can also be used to handle rounding errors when doing roundtrip calculations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=473&group_id=106