Ok, we keep the background change.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Lowagie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:21 PM
> To: Paulo Soares
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] TextRise and Chunk.BACKGROUND 
> / Chunk.UNDERLINE
> 
> Paulo Soares wrote:
> 
> >I know about that but at the time decided against any change based on
> >the text rise. Here are my reasons:
> >
> >- the underline should follow the baseline otherwise mixing 
> normal text
> >and superscript would cause a discontinuity.
> >
> I didn't think about that. I was just making some standalone examples.
> 
> > I didn't consider the
> >subscript as it doesn't have much sense mixing it with 
> underline text;
> >the result would be probably stroke text.
> >
> I thought of shifting the line only in the case of subscript, but I 
> didn't, because:
> 
> > For specialized work the
> >customizable Chunk.setUnderline() can always be used.
> >  
> >
> Yep, that's the more stable approach. If people are using 
> textrise, they 
> should
> adjust their underline, be it with a positive (superscript) or a 
> negative (subscript)
> value. So I removed my 'fix'.
> 
> >- about the background I'm neutral and as such I didn't 
> touch it. Either
> >way will have problems and I think that the background should be set
> >elsewhere, in a table cell for example (unless the user 
> wants a mosaic
> >effect when the fonts sizes are not the same).
> >  
> >
> I kept this change. It's quite harmless.
> 
> BTW: I also added a new static final NEXTPAGE to class Chunk.
> Maybe it will reduce the number of 'how do I go to the next 
> page' questions.
> br,
> Bruno
> 


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