Giving out slack - discussing align

Attached is a simple test.  If you run it against a fixed core (ie mine
or tupshin's) then you'll see the top two boxes are aligned as shown in
this diagram (| - parent edge, r - red box, w - white box):

|r    w    |

Given that the parents align is center (the default), shouldn't it be:

|  r    w  |

This is also one of the reasons I don't overly like the parent defining
the alignment of it's children.  If you edit the attached test and
remove the latter two boxes, you'll get the following:

|    rw    |

It's much easier to create the current behaviour from child alignment
than it is to adjust child alignment in the current core without
affecting siblings.

If a boxes alignment affected itself against it's parent, you could
easily give the current behaviour (as evidenced in the examples for bug
503) by shrink-wrapping the contents (ie in a <box shrink="true" />) and
adjusting the alignment of the wrapping box.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
Online @ http://www.charlietech.com

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