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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    test_writer_latex
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Test the LaTeX writer
+
+    :copyright: Copyright 2007-2016 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
+    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
+"""
+from __future__ import print_function
+from sphinx.writers.latex import rstdim_to_latexdim
+
+from util import raises
+
+
+def test_rstdim_to_latexdim():
+    # Length units docutils supported
+    # http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#length-units
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160em') == '160em'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160px') == '160\\sphinxpxdimen'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160in') == '160in'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160cm') == '160cm'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160mm') == '160mm'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160pt') == '160bp'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160pc') == '160pc'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('30%') == '0.300\\linewidth'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160') == '160\\sphinxpxdimen'
+
+    # flaot values
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160.0em') == '160.0em'
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('.5em') == '.5em'
+
+    # unknown values (it might be generated by 3rd party extension)
+    raises(ValueError, rstdim_to_latexdim, 'unknown')
+    assert rstdim_to_latexdim('160.0unknown') == '160.0unknown'