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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>,
	26959@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26959: Feature request: bold underlines
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 07:04:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49a934d2-fd0b-4b5d-bd77-379d0d3f95fc@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e85019c-a970-dfcb-9c33-233c39fc59b4@live.com>

> > See my reply to bug #26958.  Should we have two requests:
> > 1. Wavy (and plain) underline to follow text scaling (#26958).
> > 2. Be able to configure underline line-width (#26959).
> 
> Yes, that's a great summary.
> 
> > Is #2 enough?  If we could customize the :line-width for :underline
> > (and :overline? and :strike-through?), would that be sufficient, or
> > is there also a need for such lines to be sensitive to text scaling?
> 
> I don't think so — sensitivity to text scaling would be a useful, distinct
> feature.  Otherwise Lisp code will have to inspect font sizes and adjust
> thickness based on it, which will cause inconsistencies.  Additionally, the
> amount of space between the text and the underline needs to be adjusted when
> the font size changes — and this is currently done on GNU/Linux already.

Whatever decision is made about what the most appropriate behavior
is, should we make it optional, e.g., give users a way to _not_
scale such lines, boxes, etc.?





  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-17 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-17  4:16 bug#26959: Feature request: bold underlines Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17  4:21 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17  4:39   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 14:04     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-05-17 15:06       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 16:06         ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 18:48           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 19:48             ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 20:11               ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 21:09                 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 21:22                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 21:37                     ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-17 18:59   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-18  4:10     ` Eli Zaretskii

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