In-game help menus shunted to bottom of screen

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1. Load up Aoetearoa.gblorb (the 2010 IF Comp winner).
2. Optionally, increase the vertical height of the Gargoyle window.
2. Enter the command "about".

Menus should start printing at the top of the window. Instead, they're printed 
near the bottom of the window (unless the menu text or the chosen help text is 
lengthy enough to fill the window from top to bottom).

I'm using build 2010.1 of Gargoyle by Tor Andersson, with Git 1.2.8 by Ian 
Merrick and David Kinder.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ahope...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2010 at 11:39

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• Clipboard01.gif

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This is standard behavior for Gargoyle - text buffers are filled from the 
bottom up.

Per the Glk spec, section 3.5.3:
"The display of the text in a text buffer is up to the library."

Some games use a text grid for help menus; generally the menu items will be 
aligned with the top in that case.

Original comment by bcressey@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 5:01

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