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Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs)
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Alveola Petrofsky |
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Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs) |
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23 Jan 2002 03:21:05 -0800 |
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eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:
>
> > Perhaps you can come up with a strange possible application of margins
> > for which the other order is preferable, and perhaps that is an
> > argument for making the order configurable, but don't you agree that
> > putting the fringe next to the body text is the more sensible default?
>
> All I'm saying is that a single example is not enough to make such
> decisions. We need either _a_lot_ of examples, or some general
> considerations that would point to this direction without any particular
> examples.
Huh? Didn't you get the other half of my post:
> > We don't know what will most commonly be put in display margins,
> > but we do know that fringes' primary purpose is to display marks
> > indicating continuation and truncation of body text, not of
> > marginal text. They have nothing to do with margin text. How
> > could it be more natural to put them on the outside of the margins
> > rather than at the point of truncation?
Isn't that precisely "general considerations that would point to this
direction without any particular examples"?
-al
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), (continued)
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Richard Stallman, 2002/01/22
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Alveola Petrofsky, 2002/01/22
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Kim F. Storm, 2002/01/22
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Alveola Petrofsky, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs),
Alveola Petrofsky <=
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Richard Stallman, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Kim F. Storm, 2002/01/24
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Richard Stallman, 2002/01/25
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Kim F. Storm, 2002/01/25
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/25
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Kim F. Storm, 2002/01/25
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/26
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Richard Stallman, 2002/01/26
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23