Am 02.03.2009 um 11:41 schrieb Hans Hagen:
I would set offset parameters for all four margins before rule values but will us Hans ever grant this wish, it's been on the list from a lot of us for years.
indeed, but only because it has a speed penalty; maybe some day in mkiv only
Test file with 10.000 simple frames. Unmodified \framed: Output written on rul-test-5.pdf (1250 pages, 730030 bytes). Transcript written on rul-test-5.log. TeXExec | runtime: 10.023787 Modified \framed: Output written on rul-test-5.pdf (1250 pages, 730030 bytes). Transcript written on rul-test-5.log. TeXExec | runtime: 10.524815 If you won't change the MkII version I can live with this but what speaks against a modification of the MkIV version. Don't say performance, MkIV is in many parts slower than MkII (e.g. buffers) but people who use don't care about this. Wolfgang