The vertical height of the text editor bounding box seems to exceed its requirements. Text typed with Book Antiqua font, size 14, yields a bounding box with a vertical axis of 43 units without fail.

This can be reduced to 25 units with the Quick Editor without losing the data also without fail. By compressing the bounding box the clutter on the work page is greatly reduced.

Why the extra height of 18 units??

Muzz

Robert C. Smith

For quite awhile I was under the impression that if the bounding box dimensions exceeded the table cell dimensions then you wouldn't be able to centre the object (if you could get it in) in the cell. I finally tested it and found that this was not the case.

Also initially, I set the dimensions of the cell with the Quick Editor (I was working with a single cell) instead of the table editor. Well, I just returned to one of these cells, edited the object embedded in the cell with the text editor, did not reduce the size of vertical axis of the bounding box whick exceeded the cell size, and when I saved and published the cell size had expanded to accomodate the bounding box.

I use the Quick editor to change cell size because the "Cell Editor" is the slowest size setting editor in Web Engine -- one click at a time manually. But the Table Editor components which set cell size and the Quick Edit Dialog are not, at first glance, in sync. If I had set the cell size with the Table Editor, the bounding box (and I think I tested this) would not have re-set the cell size boundaries.

The message to me is clear enough; but it again points out the "problem" of the large vertical axis of the bounding box -- whose length undoubtedly serves a purpose, but one which I don't comprehend.

In short, and perhaps because of past errors, the only way that I can be certain that an object will fit properly in a cell is to minimize the bounding box with the Quick Editor. I have two such cells on each page of my web site. Thus if I make a change to the object embedded in the cell by double clicking on the cell to move the object into the Text Editor, when I go back I have to take the object out of the cell and resize the bounding box,

Muzz

Robert C. Smith

Hi Muzz,

The Table Editor is undergoing some extensive modifications as we speak. When the next release is posted you may find that things behave differently.


- Derry