[texhax] calculate length using macro in picture environment to use elsewhere

[William Adams]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 1:04 PM, William Adams wrote:

> (Also posted this to comp.text.tex --- my apologies to those who see  
> it twice. I'm at the end of my rope)
>
> I'm trying to do this, but the length outside of the picture  
> environment is 0.0 pt.


Heiko was kind enough to explain the local aspects of LaTeX lengths on  
comp.text.tex and that the solution is to

\global\testboxHT=\testboxHT

William

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