From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Terrible underline Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:02:57 +0100 Message-ID: <85myp9kjy6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205010218 26383 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 21:03:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 21:03:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Francesc Rocher" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 22:04:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JY6Cy-00060W-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:03:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY6CQ-0004Vt-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY6C0-0004Bu-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY6Bz-0004Af-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY6By-0004AZ-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:02:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY6By-0005vT-4P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:02:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-17-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-17-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.34]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB01221152; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:02:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-17-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A73645C047; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:02:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-102-246.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.102.246]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89E83425EB; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:02:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6BA831C5682B; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:02:57 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Francesc Rocher's message of "Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:57:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6173/Sat Mar 8 16:07:19 2008 on mail-in-09.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91778 Archived-At: "Francesc Rocher" writes: >> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: >>> David Kastrup wrote: >>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" 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