Re: [Gnumed-devel] forms in GnuMed

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:31:32AM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> just saw your recent checkin.
> 
> Walking the beach at Djerba the thought occurred to me that we
Now, now, no need to rub it in. ;-)
> should define an "absolutely positioned bounding box" for our
> forms and place our "absolute fields" relative to that. The
> immediate benefit is that we can easily adjust the entire form
> to different traction mechanisms/paper templates by simply
> moving the bounding box (a mini page ? a wordbox ?). No need to
> adjust the other "absolute" distances ...
Probably easiest to change the TeX margin parameters to adjust for
the "hardware margins" imposed by various printers.
(Yes, negative margins are allowed.)

Ian

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