Re: Lout debugging

[Jeff Kingston]

Monty writes:

> I've been using @Box to show boundaries of my objects, but that adds
> some space around them and isn't really accurate.  Is there an easy way
> to do something like set a background color for an arbitrary lout
> object so I can see exactly how big lout thinks it is?

Uwe's answer made this seem harder than it really is.  If you use

    @Box margin { 0i } ...

you get a box with no extra margin around ...  If you want to have a
background colour you can use  

    @Box margin { 0i } paint { lightgray } ...

for example.  The standard @Box always draws an outline, I believe,
but if you switch to the @Box symbol from the @Diag package:

    @Diag {
        @Box ...
    }

then that symbol has an option (outlinestyle from memory) which allows
you to turn off the outline altogether.

Jeff Kingston