From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Francesc Rocher" <francesc.rocher@gmail.com>
Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Terrible underline
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:02:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85myp9kjy6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ade856a30803081057t6f6adeebn624f1f6b88c63e1e@mail.gmail.com> (Francesc Rocher's message of "Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:57:43 +0100")
"Francesc Rocher" <francesc.rocher@gmail.com> writes:
>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>> I get terrible underlines with CVS Emacs 23, see the attached
>>>> picture. I guess this has something to do with the new font handling,
>>>> or?
>>>
>>> They look fine to me. Have you looked at the screenshot? Maybe it
>>> captures the way things should look rather than how they actually do?
>>>
>> Thanks, yes I looked at the screen shot. There is no space
>> between the characters and the underline. To me that is nearly
>> unreadable.
>>
>> It looked much better before the merge I think.
>
> Yes, you're right. It's time to get support for the variable
> 'x-underline-at-descent-line' under win32. Before the merge it
> was not necessary, but now this patch should be installed:
[...]
> Then,
>
> (setq x-underline-at-descent-line t)
>
> should make the underlining readable (it should look as before).
Why would one want to have an option then? Can you think of a use case
where people would want to have it set to nil?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-08 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-08 18:57 Terrible underline Francesc Rocher
2008-03-08 21:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-03-10 21:15 ` Francesc Rocher
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2008-03-06 15:46 Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-06 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-06 23:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-06 23:31 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-03-06 23:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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