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Measuring things

The first of these next commands was in LaTeX 2.09. The two new commands are the obvious analogues.


\settowidth {<length-cmd>} {<lr text>}
\settoheight {<length-cmd>} {<lr text>}
\settodepth {<length-cmd>} {<lr text>}



Rainer Schoepf
Fri Feb 21 10:27:57 MET 1997