Is it just the thickness of the border of your window skin?
No, definitely not; they're like 3px thick, literally just the white borders you see in that image.
It's starting to look like I might have to go with this:
Which I'm not totally thrilled with; I wanted a really small, tight box around the character name, but I just can't figure out how to do it. I can't bake it into the text box image (I'm using Galv's message backdrops plugin) because I have some scenarios where the character image is on the right and I want the name on the left, or I use the top version of the text box so it needs to be underneath etc., so it needs to be dynamic.
If anyone knows how to do this - to definitely fix it so that I can make the namebox much smaller without it obscuring the text with the margins/padding/whatever, please let me know, because I've tried all sorts and I just can't figure it out.
To clarify, if I turn the box on, I get this...
As you can see, the name box padding is GIGANTIC and I want to be able to tone it down, but
just for that one window, not for the rest of the windows in the game (NALE has tens of thousands of lines that have all been typeset; so I can't do anything which would require me to check through and make changes to the body of the game for the sake of a feature like this - I need a one-size-fits solution, and if I could just make that damn box smaller, I could come up with a new windowskin without the white borders and it'd look fantastic).
I'm aiming for...
Which doesn't look great, but I think I
could improve it with a bit of work on the windowskin of the namebox.