On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:41:47PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > > Yes, I run into this regularly myself. But that's just the usual 2 point > > > > box space acculmulated by nested boxes... Maybe going down to 1 would > > > > help already... > > > > > > I'm not sure if I was clear enough, but I was worried that we might get > > > into similar problems if we put a box around something that's in > > > emaphasis for instance. > > > > Probably. But the pink corners could overlap to the outside instead of > > requiring additional space.... > > Do you mean that the corners would written 'on top' of the > surrounding text? (Is that possible using the Qt and Xforms frontend btw?)
This would be a possibility for the boxes containing the cursor. This means we wouldn't get this annoying gap. It is currently not possible, but should not be too hard to implement. > > > Anyway, to illustrate what I mean, look at this link: > > > http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200009/0671319590___2.htm > > > > > > The first italic word is in the 4th paragraph, and the next in the 5th, > > > and then in the 7th. > > > > So we have less than one box per paragraph. Doesn't sound overly > > complicated... > > Are you trying to be difficult on purpose here? Not at all. The typical novel I read comes on dead trees and does not have font changes every second paragraph... > /Christian (getting tired of this thread) So stop it. Andre'
