11<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
22<html lang="en">
3- <!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.49 1998-04-17 19:07:20 ijacobs Exp $ -->
3+ <!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.50 1998-04-22 22:00:01 ijacobs Exp $ -->
44<HEAD>
55<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
66<TITLE>Visual rendering model</TITLE>
@@ -1584,7 +1584,7 @@ bars, as shown in the following example. The following document:
15841584<P style="position: relative; margin-right: 10px; left: 10px;">
15851585I used two red hyphens to serve as a change bar. They
15861586will "float" to the left of the line containing THIS
1587- <SPAN style="position: absolute; top: auto; left: 0px ; color: red;">--</SPAN>
1587+ <SPAN style="position: absolute; top: auto; left: -2em ; color: red;">--</SPAN>
15881588word.</P>
15891589</pre>
15901590
@@ -1596,17 +1596,20 @@ word.</P>
15961596</div>
15971597
15981598<P>First, the paragraph (whose containing block sides are shown in the
1599- illustration) is flowed normally. The two hyphens acting as change
1600- bars are taken out of the flow and positioned at the current line (due
1601- to 'top: auto'), '0px' from the left edge of the containing
1602- block. After the paragraph has been flowed, it is offset '10px' from
1603- the left edge of the containing block (thus, a right margin of '10px'
1604- has been reserved in anticipation of the offset). The result is that
1605- the change bars seem to "float" to the left of the current line.</p>
1599+ illustration) is flowed normally. Then it is offset '10px' from the
1600+ left edge of the containing block (thus, a right margin of '10px' has
1601+ been reserved in anticipation of the offset). The two hyphens acting
1602+ as change bars are taken out of the flow and positioned at the current
1603+ line (due to 'top: auto'), '-2em' from the left edge of its containing
1604+ block (established by the P in its final position). The result is
1605+ that the change bars seem to "float" to the left of the current
1606+ line.</p>
16061607</div>
16071608
16081609<!-- How do you put the hyphens in the RIGHT margin? BB -->
16091610
1611+ <!-- Could you say 'right: -2em'? -IJ -->
1612+
16101613<H2>Layered presentation</H2>
16111614<P><em>In the following sections, the expression "in front of"
16121615means closer to the user as the user faces the screen.</em></P>
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