diff --git a/crates/edit/src/place.rs b/crates/edit/src/place.rs
index 0d2f138a41..b55e71a6ff 100644
--- a/crates/edit/src/place.rs
+++ b/crates/edit/src/place.rs
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ pub(crate) struct Reach {
 
 impl Reach {
     /// The old box and the moved one, grown to `width` either way (alignment may grow a line left
-    /// or right), down to `rows` lines and up to one `pitch` above its bottom (a larger size); turned text grows by the lines' diagonal every way.
+    /// or right), down to `rows` lines and up one `pitch` above its top (a larger size on the first line, however many lines the old box had); turned text grows by the lines' diagonal every way.
     /// Unbounded when a number is not finite.
     pub(crate) fn bounds(&self) -> [f64; 4] {
         const UNBOUNDED: [f64; 4] = [f64::NEG_INFINITY, f64::NEG_INFINITY, f64::INFINITY, f64::INFINITY];
@@ -387,12 +387,7 @@ impl Reach {
         let rows = f64::from(u32::try_from(self.rows).unwrap_or(u32::MAX));
         let (width, height) = (self.width.abs(), self.pitch.abs() * rows);
         let grown = if self.upright {
-            [
-                moved[0].min(moved[2] - width),
-                moved[1].min(moved[3] - height),
-                moved[2].max(moved[0] + width),
-                moved[3].max(moved[1] + self.pitch.abs()),
-            ]
+            [moved[0].min(moved[2] - width), moved[1].min(moved[3] - height), moved[2].max(moved[0] + width), moved[3] + self.pitch.abs()]
         } else {
             let d = width.hypot(height);
             [moved[0] - d, moved[1] - d, moved[2] + d, moved[3] + d]
diff --git a/crates/edit/src/tests.rs b/crates/edit/src/tests.rs
index dead2dcef0..7ee78e882b 100644
--- a/crates/edit/src/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/edit/src/tests.rs
@@ -4622,13 +4622,13 @@ fn an_ocr_rewrite_goes_on_top_of_paint_over_where_it_lands() {
 #[test]
 fn a_rewrites_reach_covers_its_move_width_and_lines() {
     let reach = |offset, width, rows, upright| crate::Reach { rect: [10.0, 90.0, 30.0, 100.0], offset, width, rows, pitch: 10.0, upright }.bounds();
-    assert_eq!(reach([0.0, 0.0], 20.0, 1, true), [10.0, 90.0, 30.0, 100.0]);
+    assert_eq!(reach([0.0, 0.0], 20.0, 1, true), [10.0, 90.0, 30.0, 110.0]);
     assert_eq!(reach([5.0, -50.0], 20.0, 1, true), [10.0, 40.0, 35.0, 100.0]);
-    assert_eq!(reach([0.0, 0.0], 50.0, 3, true), [-20.0, 70.0, 60.0, 100.0]);
+    assert_eq!(reach([0.0, 0.0], 50.0, 3, true), [-20.0, 70.0, 60.0, 110.0]);
     assert_eq!(reach([0.0, 0.0], 30.0, 4, false), [-40.0, 40.0, 80.0, 150.0]);
     assert_eq!(reach([f64::NAN, 0.0], 20.0, 1, true)[0], f64::NEG_INFINITY);
     let larger = crate::Reach { rect: [10.0, 90.0, 30.0, 100.0], offset: [0.0, 0.0], width: 20.0, rows: 1, pitch: 24.0, upright: true };
-    assert_eq!(larger.bounds(), [10.0, 76.0, 30.0, 114.0], "a larger size grows the line up as well as down");
+    assert_eq!(larger.bounds(), [10.0, 76.0, 30.0, 124.0], "a larger size grows the line up as well as down");
 }
 
 /// Revealed OCR text may have to go on top of the page; a page whose marked content nests too deep
diff --git a/crates/edit/src/text_regions/styled.rs b/crates/edit/src/text_regions/styled.rs
index 7fe7a6a066..943bece7af 100644
--- a/crates/edit/src/text_regions/styled.rs
+++ b/crates/edit/src/text_regions/styled.rs
@@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ pub(crate) fn rewrite_styled_block(
     let largest =
         block.lines.iter().filter_map(|i| lines.get(*i)).map(|l| l.size).chain(style.ranges.iter().filter_map(|r| r.size)).fold(first.size, f64::max);
     // At least one line of the largest glyphs, so a larger range reaches up as far as it draws.
-    let pitch = source_leading.max(row_step(style, largest, source_leading)).max(largest * 1.2);
+    const LINE_EM: f64 = 1.2;
+    let pitch = source_leading.max(row_step(style, largest, source_leading)).max(largest * LINE_EM);
     let widest = measured.iter().copied().fold(width, f64::max);
     // This path lays rows out along user-space baselines, so the paragraph is upright here.
     let reach = crate::Reach { rect: block.rect, offset: [dx, dy], width: widest, rows: rows.len(), pitch, upright: true };