Urgh. After all the work on rebuilding Surfing The Deathline, I discovered the style for the new thought bubbles wasn’t going to work. I went through several revisions, before coming up with something I sortof liked, as I delved into nocturnality. i had to go back through the book and re-build all the thought boxes to be two objects – the text and the box.
It was penance for a shortcut I’d thought I could take when I first did it, but it made engineering sense to fix the problem. I gained significant flexibility in how I could then modify the styling of the boxes themselves.
Eventually, I managed to figure out a way to get the bubble style I’d originally wanted, so not it’s a matter of nudging things around a bit to get alignments with other page elements correct. Its a satisfying result.