Hi Luigi,
thanks for the explanation, now (finally) I understand the mechanism…
Willi
On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:49 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Willi Egger <cont...@boede.nl> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I just downloaded yesterday night's version of Context and tried the example
> provided. - What is wrong with the first line with the \hbox? This stretched
> text is as long as the second line and uses the whole text width. The third
> line has a width of 10cm as it seems.
>
>
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\stretched{to the limit}}
> means that the box has 5cm, but \stretched must use some horizontal size (i.e
> \hsize)
> to stretch the text. The twos are different lengths: it doesn't make much
> sense to strecth the text "to the limit" to its natural width (yes, it makes
> sense --- stretched is nil)
> try
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\hsize=5cm\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox to 5cm{\hsize=0cm\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox{\stretched{to the limit}}
> \ruledhbox{\stretched[width=10cm]{to the limit}}
>
> --
> luigi
>
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