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* bug#321: Underline drawing that leaves gaps for descenders
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@ 2012-04-11 12:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2012-04-11 12:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David De La Harpe Golden; +Cc: 321-close

David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:

> Ideally, underlining would be able to break at (leave gaps for)
> descenders (in latin script typically gjpqy and some old-style
> numerals), to improve legibility.

Looking at the images, it does improve legibility in some cases, but in
other cases it looks kinda awkward -- as if the underlining stops and
then starts again.

So I don't really feel that something like this would be a display
improvement.

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