On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:25 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Do you have to use textbackground (assuming, of course, that you are using 
> MkIV)? 

I think so. I can't remember why, but someone on the list probably made
a compelling argument for its use.

> The main advantage of textbackground is that they adapt to pararagraph 
> shapes (if you use things like \startplacefigure[location=left] ... 
> \stopplacefigure), and can be nested.

Yes, which I may require from time to time. Why doesn't the bottomoffset
and topoffset variables do anything in a textbackground?

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