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%%% @LaTeX-doc-source-file{
%%%   filename  = "getwidth.dtx",
%%%   version   = "1.01",
%%%   date      = "2001/12/19",
%%%   time      = "20:56:06 PST",
%%%   author    = "Michael J Downes",
%%%   address   = "American Mathematical Society,
%%%                Publications Technical Group,
%%%                PO Box 6248,
%%%                Providence, RI 02940,
%%%                USA",
%%%   email     = "tech-support@ams.org",
%%%   URL       = "http://www.ams.org/",
%%%   keywords  = "storing measurements"
%%%   abstract  = "LaTeX package for storing and retrieving measurements
%%%                for document objects.",
%%%   checksum  = "09517 121 288 3286",
%%%   docstring = "The checksum field, produced by Robert Solovay's
%%%                checksum utility, gives CRC-16 checksum, lines,
%%%                words, and characters.",
%%%  }
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% \iffalse
%<*driver>
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\documentclass{amsdtx}
\providecommand{\mdash}{\textemdash}
\providecommand{\qq}[1]{\textquotedblleft#1\textquotedblright}
\begin{document}
\title{The \pkg{getwidth} package}
\author{Michael~J. Downes\\American Mathematical Society}
\date{Version \fileversion, \filedate}
\hDocInput{getwidth.dtx}
\end{document}
%</driver>
% \fi
%
% \maketitle
% \section{Introduction}
%
%    The \pkg{getwidth} package provides a way for \LaTeX{} elements to
%    record measurements in the aux file for use on future passes.
%
%\begin{verbatim}
%\GetWidth{\leftmargin}
%\SaveWidth{\leftmargin}{\makelabel{\@itemlabel}}
%\end{verbatim}
%
%    \begin{macrocode}
\let\@nx\noexpand \let\@xp\expandafter
%    \end{macrocode}
%
%    \begin{macrocode}
\def\gw@index{0}%
\let\saved@widths\@empty
%    \end{macrocode}
%
%    \begin{macrocode}
\newcommand{\GetWidth}[2][]{%
  \begingroup
  \@tempcnta\gw@index \advance\@tempcnta\@ne
  \xdef\gw@index{\number\@tempcnta}%
  \escapechar\m@ne
  \edef\@tempa{W[\gw@index]\string#2\@empty}%
  \xdef\saved@widths{{\@tempa}\saved@widths}%
%  \message{saved@widths: \saved@widths}%
  \edef\X{\endgroup\@nx\@xp\@nx\gw@check
    \@nx\csname r@\@tempa\endcsname{#2}{%
      \ifx @#1@#2\else#1\fi}}%
  \X
}
%    \end{macrocode}
%
%    \begin{macrocode}
\def\gw@check#1#2#3{%
  \ifx#1\relax #2=#3\relax
  \else #2=#1\relax
  \fi
}
%    \end{macrocode}
%
%    \begin{macrocode}
\def\SaveWidth#1#2{%
  \relax
  \if@filesw
    \begingroup
    \settowidth\@tempdima{#2}%
    \PopWidthLabel\@tempa
% \newlabel{W[19]leftmargin}{20.334pt}
    \immediate\write\@auxout{\string\newlabel{\@tempa}{\the\@tempdima}}%
    \endgroup
  \fi
}
%    \end{macrocode}
%
%    \begin{macrocode}
\def\PopWidthLabel#1{%
  \ifx\saved@widths\@empty
    \PopError\saved@widths
    \def#1{10pt}%
  \else
    \iffalse{\fi \afterassignment\PopWL@a \@xp\def\@xp#1\saved@widths}%
  \fi
}
\def\PopWL@a{\xdef\saved@widths{\iffalse}\fi}
\def\PopError#1{%
  \@latex@error{Empty stack \string#1 cannot be popped}\@ehc
}
%    \end{macrocode}
%
%    The usual \cs{endinput} to ensure that random garbage at the end of
%    the file doesn't get copied by \fn{docstrip}.
%    \begin{macrocode}
\endinput
%
%    \end{macrocode}
%
% \CheckSum{109}
% \Finale
% \endinput