From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
Cc: 26958@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26958: Can we make wavy underlines scale like straight ones?
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 18:23:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83inkz5wyj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2751b56b-c419-8ad9-c588-11186a86fb9e@live.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Tue, 16 May 2017 23:47:48 -0400)
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 23:47:48 -0400
>
> Straight underlines get thicker when font size increases
That's not really accurate, see my other messages.
> but wavy underlines do not. The problem is particularly visible on hi-resolution displays, where wavy underlines look really tiny. This problem can be observed on all displays by running the following and pressing C-x C-= a few times:
>
> (font-lock-mode -1)
> (insert (propertize "AAAAA" 'face '(:underline (:style line)))
> "\n" (propertize "AAAAA" 'face '(:underline (:style wave))))
>
> I've seen the problem mentioned a few times online (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/24713/change-size-of-wavy-underlines-for-hidpi-displays, https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/51wm7d/emacs_on_hidpi_displays/).
>
> For xterm.c, the relevant function seems to be x_draw_underwave.
How about sending a patch?
But I suggest to read about the related complications first, because I
think this issue is not as simple as it sounds.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-17 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-17 3:47 bug#26958: Can we make wavy underlines scale like straight ones? Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 4:14 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 4:36 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-05-17 19:38 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-19 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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