Re: Key layout and exterior X window patches

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Thursday 30 June 2005 10:03 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>How about
>>
>>Syntax:
>>      set key {on|off} {default}
>>              {{inside | tmargin | bmargin | lmargin | rmargin} | {at <position>}}
>>              {left | right | center} {top | bottom | center}
>>
>>where
>>
>>"above" = "tmargin"
>>"below" = "bmargin"
>>"outside" = "rmargin" + "top"
> 
> 
> Looks reasonable.

Oh yeah, "under" = "outside".

Why not take this one step further and cover all bases?  Having corner position influenced by "vert/horiz" may be a nice feature, for those people who don't want to think to much.  How about the slight variation on the above:

Syntax:
      set key {on|off} {default}
              {{inside | outside} | {at <position>}
                | {tmargin | bmargin | lmargin | rmargin}}
              {left | right | center} {top | bottom | center}
              {vertical | horizontal} {Left | Right}
[...]

where

"above" = "tmargin"
"below" = "bmargin"
"below" without left/right appearing on line = "bmargin" + "center"
"under" = "below"
"outside" without left/right = "rmargin" (can use top/bottom/center
  for positioning)
"outside" with left/right determines corner positions based
  upon "vertical/horizontal"
 
The groupings of {inside|outside} {at } and {tmargin|bmargin...} are very natural, I think.  Backward compatibility is maintained.  There is a slight
problem that

set key left
set key outside

or

set key right
set key below

might not work as expected, but I think that is minor.

Sorry for having gone around in circles here a bit.  [I think all I've done is propose adding {tmargin|bmargin|...}.]  I'll create a version with the above syntax tomorrow.

Dan