Sorry to bother you Hans, but the macro is not working as expected... I can see the cropped text (\underbar + special symbols) and there is an hyphen symbol in the text only example.
I've added the example code I used for tests with \limitatetext and \doboundtext. Peter
% interface=en output=pdftex % Time-stamp: <Mittwoch, 07 September 2005 16:25:40; crop.tex> % \setupcolors[state=start] \def\limitatefirstline#1#2#3% {\hbox\bgroup\strut \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}% \ifdim\wd\scratchbox>#2\relax \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#3}% \hsize#2\relax \advance\hsize-\wd\scratchbox \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\forgetall#1}% \setbox\scratchbox\vsplit\scratchbox to \lineheight \vbox{\unvbox\scratchbox}% #3% \else #1% \fi \egroup} \def\CropSymbol{\red...}% \starttext \setupframed[offset=overlay, height=\struttotal, framecolor=lightgray] \framed[width=8ex,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 8ex} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\underbar{Text dummy}}{8ex}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatetext{\underbar{Text dummy}}{8ex}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=120pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 120 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered \pi \textdegree <>\&}{120pt}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=110pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 110 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered \pi \textdegree <>\&}{110pt}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatefirstline{This text is definitely too long to fit this frame.}{110pt}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=100pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 100 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered\space \pi \textdegree <>\&}{100pt}{\CropSymbol}} \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: context %%% TeX-master: "" %%% End:
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