Re: extra offsets

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 03.03.2009 um 22:30 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> Hi,
>
> concerning the offsets in framed ..
>
> - we cannot use leftoffset etc as name because these are already  
> used in  mechanisms that build on top of framed and it would add  
> quite some extra code (and probably bugs) to those mechanisms
>
> - adding additional rulethickness variants is non trivial since the  
> rulethickness is also used elsewhere (rounded corners etc) and the  
> code would become rather messy; also, we can use mp for special  
> frames (after all, extra thickness makes no sense without extra  
> colors)
>
> so, as an experiment i added support for extra offsets but these  
> work *on top* of the existing offset; they have names like loffset,  
> roffset, toffset and boffset; the speed penalty is neglectable
>
> (only mkiv because it has a more clever inheritance model for  
> derived framed mechanisms)
>
> Hans

Thank you very much for now finally adding this, it's a big improvement
for natural tables and allows us to do some fancy things.

Wolfgang

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