Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-26 Thread Thomas Morley
Am So., 26. Jan. 2020 um 12:41 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : > > Thomas Morley writes: > > > Am Sa., 25. Jan. 2020 um 20:31 Uhr schrieb Aaron Hill > > : > >> > >> On 2020-01-25 10:39 am, David Stephen Grant wrote: > >> > I'm trying to create a custom flag stencil, and would like to get the > >> >

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Am Sa., 25. Jan. 2020 um 20:31 Uhr schrieb Aaron Hill > : >> >> On 2020-01-25 10:39 am, David Stephen Grant wrote: >> > I'm trying to create a custom flag stencil, and would like to get the >> > current _beam_ thickness. As a first step, in the following example I >> >

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-26 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Sa., 25. Jan. 2020 um 20:31 Uhr schrieb Aaron Hill : > > On 2020-01-25 10:39 am, David Stephen Grant wrote: > > I'm trying to create a custom flag stencil, and would like to get the > > current _beam_ thickness. As a first step, in the following example I > > would > > expect 0.5, then 1, to be

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-01-25 12:31 pm, David Kastrup wrote: ...proper English... I fear that ship has long sailed w.r.t. software engineering. Developers are too committed to their neologisms and jargon for any authoritative dictionary to keep meaningful pace with the vernacular. On this topic, I recall

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-25 12:05 pm, David Kastrup wrote: >> Aaron Hill writes: >> >>> On 2020-01-25 11:40 am, David Kastrup wrote: Aaron Hill writes: > I am unaware of any simpler approach, as it is my understanding that > grobs do not persist the entire context within

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-01-25 12:05 pm, David Kastrup wrote: Aaron Hill writes: On 2020-01-25 11:40 am, David Kastrup wrote: Aaron Hill writes: I am unaware of any simpler approach, as it is my understanding that grobs do not persist the entire context within which they were created. How would they then

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-25 11:40 am, David Kastrup wrote: >> Aaron Hill writes: >>> I am unaware of any simpler approach, as it is my understanding that >>> grobs do not persist the entire context within which they were >>> created. >> How would they then make it to the page? Suicided

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-01-25 11:40 am, David Kastrup wrote: Aaron Hill writes: I am unaware of any simpler approach, as it is my understanding that grobs do not persist the entire context within which they were created. How would they then make it to the page? Suicided grobs have their properties deleted

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Stephen Grant
Thank you for the responses - I'll look into Aaron's suggestion, which looks like it may do the trick.

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2020-01-25 10:39 am, David Stephen Grant wrote: >> I'm trying to create a custom flag stencil, and would like to get the >> current _beam_ thickness. As a first step, in the following example >> I would >> expect 0.5, then 1, to be printed to the console. Is there a way

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-01-25 10:39 am, David Stephen Grant wrote: I'm trying to create a custom flag stencil, and would like to get the current _beam_ thickness. As a first step, in the following example I would expect 0.5, then 1, to be printed to the console. Is there a way of doing this? With a little

Re: Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Sa., 25. Jan. 2020 um 19:40 Uhr schrieb David Stephen Grant : > > I'm trying to create a custom flag stencil, and would like to get the current > _beam_ thickness. As a first step, in the following example I would expect > 0.5, then 1, to be printed to the console. Is there a way of doing

Scheme: get current beam-thickness

2020-01-25 Thread David Stephen Grant
I'm trying to create a custom flag stencil, and would like to get the current _beam_ thickness. As a first step, in the following example I would expect 0.5, then 1, to be printed to the console. Is there a way of doing this? Thanks, David \version "2.19.83" #(define (my-flag) (lambda (grob)