Hi, (thanks for your answers, Paul and Taco)
>> Anyway it'd be nice indeed to have a switch for node.dimensions which >> measure either vertically or horizontally. > > Vertical lists are usually short and consist of boxes and glues > for which all dimensions are already known, so it should be pretty > simple to write a lua function for that. The case for horizontal > lists is a lot harder to do in lua because of the need to fetch > font dimensions. So, would it be (in theory) possible to have node.dimensions(...) behave "correct" in both directions (hlist.list, vlist.list)? Does the list itself know whether it is a vertical or a horizontal list? I'd guess the answer is 'no'. Patrick
