On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Why do we have this distinction? Performance? Proven?
If I remember correctly, it is just history. I added the comment when I found out that it was basically the same. If they are the same now, I'm sure you can just collapse them. > // Gets the fully instantiated font at a given position in a paragraph > // Basically the same routine as Paragraph::getFont() in paragraph.C. > // The difference is that this one is used for displaying, and thus we > // are allowed to make cosmetic improvements. For instance make footnotes > // smaller. (Asger) > // If position is -1, we get the layout font of the paragraph. > // If position is -2, we get the font of the manual label of the paragraph. Regards, Asger
