I think there's only a very stupid, short-sighted reason: since numbers never have descenders, it wasn't necessary to add a pixel of whitespace underneath the rendered string. I was intent on reducing the size of everything to its absolute minimum.
I was forgetting about (or maybe not anticipating) "symbol" boxes - it's easy to make symbol box text collide with the box's outlet. And "|" characters can hit the bottom edge of the box even away from the outlet.
cheers Miller
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:10:50PM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
Is there a reason why atoms and slightly shorter in height than object boxes, at least on macOS?
I'm not asking for the technical reason, as I know in the code why this is, but more the conceptual reason, or is it a bug?
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