Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> Ok. Note that I nobody disagrees with the general view (I don't know if I >> explained myself enough before).
Sorry. I started to write in first person but then I realized that everyone would agree. ;-) So take out the 'I'. > I cannot parse what's above ;-) > >> It's just that the baseline is as good as >> anything else for specifying the position of the frame (for instance, why >> don't we use bottom_y instead of top_y, no particular reason), > > Oh yes, there is a reason, we know where to start and that is the > top-left corner (i.e. y = 0). I grant you we could also draw from the > bottom but that would necessitate a lot of coordinate changing. Of course ;-) >> and we use >> baseline everywhere [i.e. in the lyx sources, if the object has a >> Dimension, "y" == "baseline"]. So are we really sure this battle is worth >> fighting (I mean changing everything to understand top_y). > > I think there is a misundertanding here... I agree that the baseline is > the reference and I did not change that philosophy I think. For me the > baseline is the baseline of the inset, not the baseline of the inner > Text. The fact that InsetCollapsable adjust its baseline to its inner > Text is just a special case. Not so special (pretty much every Text related Inset) but yes. > Now, that's my turn to be unsure of the clarity of what I'm saying... I'm not sure either... So you don't plan to switch every InsetX::draw function to accept top_y, just TextMetrics::draw? A/
