Re: markup-command boxing the real printed ink?

[David Kastrup]

Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> writes:

> Ah, I’m sorry, I might have misinterpretet what with-outline does. I thought 
> it just creates a stencil that prints a markup, but specifies the skylines of 
> a different markup.

Sure.  But the skylines don't fall from the sky.  At least not in a
manner that would not be repeatable in other code.

> So basically we would need a cc hook that creates a new
> Lazy_skyline_pair and calls interpret_stencil_for_skyline on that and
> the stencil? Upon which we would need to parse that path to get the
> actual dimensions of the stencil?

We don't need the actual dimensions I think, just the min/max of
horizontal and vertical skylines, respectively.

-- 
David Kastrup