On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> > Doesn't it bother anyone that there is no left _visual_ margin in a
> > GtkText widget. Text slaps right up against the left border, and makes it
> > just a tiny bit visually confusing/difficult to pick up the start of a
> > line. There does appear to be a bit of a top margin. All the apps that I
> > _know_ are using GTK have this problem.
>
> Thanks for the prod. Your message prompted me to add horizontal margins
> to the Scintilla source editing widget. There isn't a top margin either. Its
> rare to see the accented characters that touch the top of the character box
> so what you think is a top margin is just leading. Try putting "����g" (hope
> the string makes it through the mail handlers - its A with tilde above, A
> with umlaut, A with circle above, C with cedilla and g) into widgets to see
> how they behave.
Thank you Neil!
Wow, I had thought my wish had fallen on deaf ears, but it turns out that
the only response was a good one. What about the other margins, too? :)
I look forward to seeing the changes trickle into the apps I'm using.
I hope programmers pick up on the new feature(s).
I appreciate it.
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