[texhax] Space factor as dimen?

Donald Arseneau asnd at triumf.ca
Tue Jun 23 22:45:25 CEST 2009


"Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon at gmail.com> writes:

> I found the word I needed---space factor.  To rephrase the question
> above: can I supply a space factor to a macro expecting a dimen?

No.  

You probably have to do something like 

\newlength\myspc
\settowidth\myspc{\spacefactor3000{ }}

and then use \myspc as the dimension argument.  That won't track 
font size changes though.

Other avenues are dirty hacking into the internals of the 
amsthm macros.

-- 
Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca


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