Thanks Ross,

That appears to be doing the trick!

Still trikes me as odd though that the other approach of tweaking the 
willSetLineFragmentRect: wouldn't work. I'll have to ask around at WWDC next 
week.

Thanks again,

-bd

On Jun 4, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Ross Carter wrote:

> On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Bill Dudney wrote:
>> I'm able to add additional space around a paragraph in my subclass of 
>> NSATSTypesetter's implementation of 
>> willSetLineFragmentRect:forGlyphRange:usedRect:baselineOffset:. However, I 
>> am not getting what I expect as I tweak the parameters to this method. I was 
>> hoping for some insight on what these parameters really mean from the group 
>> to help me understand why I'm not getting what I expect.
>> 
>> When I increase the height of the lineFragmentRect and the usedRect the 
>> space for the paragraph does grow and I get the space I expect.
>> 
>> What is confusing me is where the line of text is drawn in the 
>> lineFragmentRect. Based on experimentation the line of text is always drawn 
>> near the top. When I first encountered this I assumed that tweaking the 
>> baselineOffset would allow me control over where the text is drawn. I was 
>> unable to change where the text is drawn by tweaking baselineOffset.
>> 
>> My next attempt was to tweak the origin of the lineFragmentRect. That did 
>> move the line of text, but not in ways I expected it to. My thinking was 
>> that moving the origin.y 3 would move the text by 3. That does not appear to 
>> be the case.
>> 
>> Based my reading of the docs it looks to me as if the changes I make in 
>> willSetLineFrag… are passed on to 
>> setLineFragmentRect:forGlyphRange:usedRect:baselineOffset:. During the 
>> implementation of setLineFrag… the layout manager must be called with 
>> setLocation:forStartOfGlyphRange: 
> 
> Bill, I had a similar problem, and I handled it by overriding 
> -paragraphSpacingBeforeGlyphAtIndex: withProposedLineFragmentRect:. 
> 
> Ross
> 
> 


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