Emoji and Tag or Person in one line

It may be a small thing, but I would like to report it here anyway.

What I did:
When I insert an emoji into a line that also has tag or person in it, only the text is centered to the emoji. However, the frame of the tag or person remains in place.

What happened:
The result is a bit problematic with my example and not really easy to read (see picture).

What I expected:
I can always easily recognize and read the tag or person.

Things that might be helpful to know (Agenda version, OS and model, etc):
iOS + iPadOS 18.1, Agenda 19.2.1 (314)

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I see. Yes, calculating exactly where those boxes should go is actually a real rat’s nest. We’ll see if we can do better.

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I would like to give you some feedback with an alternative solution that works well for me.

Enclosing the emojis in backstick characters `` reduces their size.
This keeps the frame of the boxes and the text horizontally centered and thus unchanged.

Perhaps the backsticks could be used automatically in this case?
Just an idea…

I can only speak for Mac at the moment. In my initial try it looks to me like the “box” height is a minuscule amount too tall. You can see the tags top border being narrowed by the line height. I tried many different combos of text size and line spacing, it had no effect. I restarted Agenda, started again testing. It was totally different after restarting. All was as you would expect.

The 2 back-tics format the selection (emoji) onward as fixed width which needs to be de-selected before continuing unless you begin by typing a space before new text. It doesn’t affect text that has already been entered when inserting the emoji with ``.

It also appears to me that in your dark shot the 1-2 and 3-4 distances are less than the 2-3?

Notice how the 1 shifts my tag box slightly left.

Yes, that’s right.

The font size and line spacing settings affect this behavior.

I’m currently on my iPad.
These settings (my default setting)…

…generate this..

And these…

..this…

The result deteriorates with smaller font sizes and larger line spacing.

Edit:
And now on the Mac.

There are no problems here, just minor anomalies.
e.g.


or

…and with these settings…

So it seems to be just a problem with iOS/iPadOS.

Totally! I still think the tag box is too big. If you’re interested, I wasn’t but did it anyway, you can find more than you want to know about backticks history and use in markdown and code at…..

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#code .

Basically, Agenda sees the emoji with backticks as a code block. Typing with no space after, it is still inside and thinks you want to keep the line in fixed width. I knew something was up by it taking 8 seconds to process the 2 backticks. Sorry I got off subject fixated on why the backticks were changing the emoji size. I saw the change to fixed width as the reason for your issue. Hope @drewmccormack didn’t get bored and move on!

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Still here. Will try to take a look when I’m done with all this Liquid Glass :zany_face:

Don’t let our chatter distract you. :winking_face_with_tongue:
It’s just a minor detail and not a high priority.