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?) > > 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? You ignore the change in magnitude of how often it occurs (once every 20 pages to a few times per page), and also the case of dialogs? If you are dead-set on using boxes, just say so ... /Christian (getting tired of this thread) -- Dr. Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
