On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 08:45:41PM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Andre, do you have an idea of exactly what ascent_of_text was (wrt. ascent)?
Not "exactly". See below. > Because we are having weird text painting problems, probably related to its > removal. > > It seems it was used to introduce some extra space above rows (for adding > the "Bibliography" label for instance). That's my assumption, too. > Is the extra information really not needed? I don't think so, at least if the assumption is correct. We always draw a densely packes array of rows with no space inbetween. [If we don't, this it's a bug...] So if we need some extra space somewhere, this has to be added to the ascent or descent of some row. In the bibliography case I'd think it should be sufficient to add enough room for the label to the ascent of the very first row in the first bibliography paragraph. Andre'
