Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>> My solution does indeed not look nice but is with a closer look simpler >>> than all others that we found so far. So is it really worth it to >>> implement a new empty length feature? I mean that is much more code than >>> having in 2 files a special code for en empty length? >> >> The work I did on empty length will allow to cleanup other code (think >> about the ugly support for box height, for example?). I want all these >> tests for special values of >> lengths to just disappear, because they create a lot of maintenance >> burden. > > I fully support you here but cannot help you as I don't understand the > background. The problem is that your attempts don't work and I am lost > here.
If I understand correctly the result of this thread no one understands InsetBox today and the code became so dark that even experienced devs are unable to fix the problems there. I would ask whether this is the situation when we should stop to add any new features like \mbox and \fbox and add next layer of chaotic code. Pavel
