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diff --git a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex index 8e6c59af6..372aca1e5 100644 --- a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex +++ b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex @@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ See the description of \type {node.hpack()} for a few memory allocation caveats. node.dimensions(<node> n, <node> t, <string> dir) \stopfunctioncall -This function calculates the natural in-line dimensions of the node list starting +This function calculates the natural in|-|line dimensions of the node list starting at node \type {n} and terminating just before node \type {t} (or the end of the list, if there is no second argument). The return values are scaled points. An alternative format that starts with glue parameters as the first three arguments @@ -1431,6 +1431,10 @@ example in code like this, which prints the width of the space in between the )) } \stoptyping +You need to keep in mind that this is one of the few places in \TEX\ where floats +are used, which means that you can get small differences in rounding when you +compare the width repported by \type {hpack} with \type {dimensions}. + \subsubsection{\type {node.mlist_to_hlist}} \startfunctioncall |