It is an issue because I am loath to change the specs
for the display for boxed arrays.  The behaviour I described 
is exhibited by ":y .

> Anyways, if it is an issue, then perhaps
> we should introduce enough cell padding that
> box borders occupy approximately the same
> space that a character would occupy.

There is the rub.  How much cell padding to apply?
It'd depend on the font size.

As I said, perhaps the current behaviour for thh 
is already good enough.  


----- Original Message -----
From: Raul Miller <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 16:23
Subject: Re: [Jbeta] displaying boxed array in html
To: Beta forum <[email protected]>

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
> > With that change, a cell in a plane no longer has the
> > same number of lines as a cell in the same row in another plane.
> > Try it on  2 2 3 $ (i.&.>i.6),<<2 5$'a   efghij'
> 
> Why is this an issue?
> 
> In other words, why should row height for
> differing indices on rank 3 be treated any
> different than row height for differing indices
> on rank 2?
> 
> Anyways, if it is an issue, then perhaps
> we should introduce enough cell padding that
> box borders occupy approximately the same
> space that a character would occupy.
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