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Projecting Binary Stem establishes x or y coordinate of exactly one Floating Binary Stem

Floating Binary Stem gets x or y coordinage from exactly one Projecting Binary Stem]

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If a Binary Connector is unbent (straight) we want to specify an anchor position on one Node face and then just draw the Connector line straight across to stop on the opposite Node face. What we don’t want to do is try to connect anchor to anchor since that will lead to a diagonal line if the anchors on each side aren’t on the same x or y axis.

So we pair an Anchored Binary Stem which we will call the Projecting Binary Stem with a non-Anchored Binary Stem which we call the Floating Binary Stem. Thus the x or y value of the Floating Binary Stem is strictly determined by that of its paired Projecting Binary Stem anchor position. This pairing then forms a Straight Binary Connector.