From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 26959@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26959: Feature request: bold underlines
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 11:06:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91ebc787-acba-55b5-0129-221c5359736d@live.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49a934d2-fd0b-4b5d-bd77-379d0d3f95fc@default>
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On 2017-05-17 10:04, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> See my reply to bug #26958. Should we have two requests:
>>> 1. Wavy (and plain) underline to follow text scaling (#26958).
>>> 2. Be able to configure underline line-width (#26959).
>>
>> Yes, that's a great summary.
>>
>>> Is #2 enough? If we could customize the :line-width for :underline
>>> (and :overline? and :strike-through?), would that be sufficient, or
>>> is there also a need for such lines to be sensitive to text scaling?
>>
>> I don't think so — sensitivity to text scaling would be a useful, distinct
>> feature. Otherwise Lisp code will have to inspect font sizes and adjust
>> thickness based on it, which will cause inconsistencies. Additionally, the
>> amount of space between the text and the underline needs to be adjusted when
>> the font size changes — and this is currently done on GNU/Linux already.
>
> Whatever decision is made about what the most appropriate behavior
> is, should we make it optional, e.g., give users a way to _not_
> scale such lines, boxes, etc.?
I think we should wait for an explicit request before introducing such an option: I have not seen complaints about the behavior as currently implemented in GNU/Linux.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-17 4:16 bug#26959: Feature request: bold underlines Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 4:21 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 4:39 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 14:04 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 15:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2017-05-17 16:06 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 18:48 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 20:11 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 21:09 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 21:22 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-17 21:37 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-17 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-17 18:59 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-18 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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