[texhax] Finding the widest string

[José Romildo Malaquias]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:58:09PM +0200, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:39:44AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

[...] 
> FYI, the same question was asked in the newsgroup comp.text.tex,
> the thread there contains other solution examples.

Is it considered bad practice to ask the same question on both
comp.text.tex and here?

Romildo