Box drawing with hypertext[]?

[AtomicCheese]

I'm trying to display a ASCII art box using some box drawing unicode characters

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┏━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Text here ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━┛

It looks fine in chat or in a `field[]` or `textlist[]`, but in hypertext there's quite noticeable gap between any corner and the vertical pipe its connected to

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┏━━━━━━━━━━━┓
(gap)    (gap)
┃ Text here ┃
(gap)    (gap)
┗━━━━━━━━━━━┛

Is there a way to make the connections flush or is this a problem with `hypertext[]`s that i need to live with?

[sofar]

Yes, this is a limitation due to the vertical spacing between font lines in the engine. I've ran into the same issue for my insidethebox server, which uses this exact sort of ascii-art bordering for all of its dialog windows.

You can opt to instead draw actual lines, through, and overlay them.

[AtomicCheese]

You can opt to instead draw actual lines, through, and overlay them.

Interesting. How does one draw actual lines within a hypertext? (or are you talking about using box[] elements or things like that?)

[sofar]

yes, box[] stuff is what I mean.