Re: \box overlaps

[David Kastrup]

Keith OHara <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I suspect
>>     markup.scm: use stencil extents when stacking; issue 732
>>
>> though from the patch itself, it appears plausible that this might be a
>> _desired_ effect of the change as a consequence of the brace metrics.
>> 
>
> I can confirm that that patch caused the change.
> Version 2.14 and earlier had the same (overlapping boxes) behavior as
> current.
>
> The glyph for the left-brace has an extent that looks just like a
> backspace.  That means \concat of two left-braces will overlap them
> perfectly.

So unless we consider the metrics of the braces in itself bad, it would
appear that the current behavior is what to expect.

-- 
David Kastrup