Le 09/12/2010 09:24, Patrick Gundlach a écrit :
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
It's not possible indeed since, despite some nodes being allowed in
hlist's only, as Taco said, a list can be made of nodes that can appear
anywhere (e.g. hboxes), and so its being horizontal or vertical totally
depends on the container.
Best,
Paul
