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by triop
Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Text width, height variable manipulation
Replies: 6
Views: 8226

Text width, height variable manipulation

With following the value of variable can be printed to pdf, so it should be somehow possible to write this value to txt file.
\documentclass{article}
% \usepackage[verbose]{geometry}
\begin{document}
% \SweaveOpts{concordance=TRUE}
\newlength{\mylength}
\settowidth{\mylength}{some text}
\the ...
by triop
Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Text width, height variable manipulation
Replies: 6
Views: 8226

Text width, height variable manipulation

For my purpose sinking variables with their values into file would suffice. Anything else I can do with R project. It would serve many purposes I can't possibly list them all.

For example I can dynamically set tabular data in pretty table using \longtable. Some things still bothers me. I have ...
by triop
Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Text width, height variable manipulation
Replies: 6
Views: 8226

Text width, height variable manipulation

Nice, that's what I hopped for. Thank you very much.

Say I have many thousands of such strings which I need to measure. I can generate code in R project into txt file like following:

\settowidth{\stringlngth1}{string1}
\settowidth{\stringlngth2}{string2}
\settowidth{\stringlngthn}{stringn}

Can ...
by triop
Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:02 pm
Forum: Graphics, Figures & Tables
Topic: interactive table sorting
Replies: 1
Views: 11270

interactive table sorting

Hello, is it possible to make pdf which has interactive table with sorting options like in excel? I mean data/filter which can sort rows upon clicking on column header.
by triop
Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Text width, height variable manipulation
Replies: 6
Views: 8226

Text width, height variable manipulation

Hello, I would like to get properties of typeset object. For example width and height of particular formatted text string. I would like to assign height of this string to variable and than use and manipulate with this variable in subsequent typesetting.

Say I have string "my string". I than assign ...