Paragraph indents and spacing

The same two paragraphs six ways: the indents, the room around a paragraph, its last line, its first line.

JSON write_paragraphs.json 301 lines

This one is not a program. It is the request the document server is sent: the same page, asked for over the network by an application that writes no PDF code at all.

The library measures three numbers off the lines it has just set — the room a heading takes, the room the block under it fills, and where that block therefore starts — and the request repeats those three as figures written into it, so every rectangle here is worked back from what the library measured. The sixth block asks the library for a last line clear of the letters that hang below it; that setting is not on the wire, and it draws nothing — it only enters the height the block reports. The frame under that block is drawn at the height the library reported, so both pages carry the same frame. The six shapes themselves, and where every line of every block falls, are the same either way.

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