🚀 go-pugleaf

BRILLIANT!!!

It's been staring me in the face for days but I never thought of it until now. I've been bringing these complex entities inline and manipulating them. At the end, I've had to use the library trick to overcome the composer problem (when the height of an inline changes, the composer doesn't notice -- doesn't matter too much for fixed leadings, but is a disaster when using autoleading).

Well, I've also discovered some bugs with moving items within a group if said group is inline. Try this:

1. make a group of two overlapping rectangles. Let the small one stick out the top only of the big one.

2. move it inline in a text frame

3. use the direct selection tool to select the smaller rectangle

4. set the proxy point at left

5. change the width of the rectangle by using the arrow keys in the transform palette to increase width

The rectangle goes for a wander across the page.

So, with nasties like this lurking, why bother to bring the thing inline until I've finished manipulating it? No good reason at all. It works much better not doing it (no need to worry about page turns).

Phew. I'm glad I decided to post the previous message or I might never have thought of this.

Dave