Re: calculating with TeX/LaTeX
Just glancing through the geometry.sty file, it looks like it's done with
lots of \addtolength and \setlength commands.
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> hi,
> how can you {add,multiply,negate,divide} two scalars in TeX/LaTeX?
>
> in a new command that i am writing (it places a \picture), i want to
> use one of the two arguments (width) and \linewidth or \textwidth to
> calculate the remaining horizontal space i have (for another picture).
>
> i know i can convert a #1 argument of a command into a \length with
> \newlength\setlength, but how can i mathematically combine multiple
> \lengths? i know it's possible, though maybe not on the LaTeX level.
>
> any clues?
>
> martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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