Re: Increase default `line-spacing' to 0.05, 0.10 or 0.15 [proposal]

[Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>]

On Tue,  4 May 2021 at 09:59, Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> wrote:

In general, all ASCII art using box-drawing characters will look wrong
if line spacing is used.

In normal typography you are free to choose how much space to add
between lines, but the horizontal condensedness is a fixed
characteristic of the font.  It seems to me that for monospaced fonts
the vertical condensedness is pretty much fixed by the font design as
well.

For instance, in monospaced fonts the descender of "g" tends to look a
bit squished.  This is a compromise; if the font designer wanted to make
the font vertically more sparse, they might as well have given the
descender a bit more room.

> On 5/4/2021 9:12 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>> 
>>> The way I suggest we carry this out is an experiment on master for 30
>>> days, similarly to how we recently did with unbinding `M-o'.  This would
>>> allow us to gather feedback and see how well this works in practice.
>> FWIW, I just tried both 0.15 and 0.10 and IMO it improves
>> readability.
>> There are some negative consequences, though, like the "line" of
>> display-fill-column-indicator-mode losing any apparience of continuity.
>
> I'm not sure if there's an easy way to ensure the fill line looks
> continuous in this case, but if that could be improved, it would help
> in a few other areas even if line-spacing weren't increased. For
> example, with `org-prettify-entities' set to t, subscripts add a bit
> to the line height, causing the fill line to appear
> discontinuous. Likewise, I believe overlines add a bit to the line
> height too.
>
> - Jim