way to move diagrams closer together

[fryguybob]

(Imported from http://code.google.com/p/diagrams/issues/detail?id=38. Original issue from byor...@gmail.com on June 19, 2011, 05:51:26 PM UTC)

There ought to be some sort of "negative space" primitive or some other way to manually move diagrams closer together than they would be otherwise.

[fryguybob]

(Imported. Original comment by byor...@gmail.com on September 3, 2011, 04:46:19 PM UTC)

Note: this is actually more difficult than it sounds; a big part of this ticket is simply figuring out the best way to support it, or perhaps even the best way to modify the core so that it can be supported.

[jeffreyrosenbluth]

Do you think the redesigned Align modules will satisfy this, or are you looking for more?

[byorgey]

No, I think what I had in mind for this ticket was something like

circle 1 ||| strutX (-0.2) ||| circle 1

which would result in overlapping circles (except that code doesn't actually work). I.e. a "negative space" primitive. I'm not sure this is really possible, and in any case I don't think I've ever actually wanted it. Perhaps we should just close this ticket and reopen it if we ever come up with a compelling reason to want it.