[NTG-context] character width

[Wolfgang Schuster]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:31:29 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Münster <pmlists at free.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
> > \def\MySpace
> >   {\dosingleempty\doMySpace}
> > 
> > \def\doMySpace[#1]%
> >   {\setbox\scratchbox=\hbox{#1}%
> >    \unskip\hskip \the\wd \scratchbox}
> 
> Or perhaps just:
> 
> \starttext
> Text\hphantom{999}Text
> \stoptext
> 
> ?
> 
> Cheers, Peter
> 

Hi Peter,

right this also works but we wont care about spaces in the souce.

Look:

\starttext

Text\hphantom{999}Text

Text\hphantom{999} Text

Text \hphantom{999} Text

\stoptext


Antoher solution for the spacemacro:

\def\MySpace
  {\dosingleempty\doMySpace}

\def\doMySpace[#1]%
  {\unskip\hphantom{#1}\ignorespaces}

\starttext

Text\hphantom{999}Text

Text\hphantom{999} Text

Text \hphantom{999} Text

\stoptext

and we have always the same gap.

Wolfgang