Whiteout for embedded notes

How should whiteout be handled when it comes to embedded notes?

I realize that you're supposed to cover the text with the note box you're given, but for example, in post #10799121, I was unable to do so due to the layout and instead opted to use a blank new note to cover uncovered areas.

Is this how it's supposed to be done, or is there some other prefered method for this? I could not find anything in the notes wiki about this.

TIA

Since this has not gotten any pushback, I thought it'd be a good idea to make some sort of best praxis when it comes to whiteout. This could be put in the about:embedded notes page.

The techniques I've seen from searching around a bit seems to be:

1. Standard cover of underlying text

2. Rotating box to fit underlying text

3. Use variable radius on each box corner to avoid non-text details
- See post #11035820, post #11036735, post #10971770

4. Use blank boxes to cover residual underlying text
- See post #11042402, post #11039490, post #11030693

Best praxis is then to start from the top and move to the next item if the result either looks bad or there's uncovered text.

Does anyone have an opinion on this? Is this something we should follow, or should we just leave it up to the user to figure it out perhaps?

There are no real guidelines. Just do whatever is easiest to do the job done. Ideally, a single note instance related to a single piece of text on the image should contain all the needed styling by itself, so that it would still make sense with all the styling stripped; otherwise it breaks alternative non-web clients that are incapable of note styling.
Blank, style-only, textless boxes is a hack to deal with the technical limitation of one note being able to have only one styled box, which I also think is an issue that should be dealt with.