Re: Underlines and strike-through lines in column view

[Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>]

Hi, Carsten,

I just tried your patch for this fix, the column view faces are OK now, 
but those strike-through line noises come back again. Seems we can not 
get both. :-)

Wanrong

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Fixed, thanks.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>
>> Hi, Carsten,
>>
>> I just tried org-mode version 6.02b, which seems to have the fix 
>> included. Glad those "line noises" disappeared. However, there seems 
>> to be some new (compared with 6.02) problems now:
>>
>> 1. Before the fix (6.02), faces of headings in org files are 
>> preserved in the column view. In 6.02b, text in column view is all in 
>> the same face. Can we restore the 6.02 behavior?
>> 2. Customization for org-column face does not work right. Even though 
>> I only customized the "background" property of org-column face and 
>> hence expect the font stays the same as my default font (a bold 
>> font), but the font changes to regular (no bold text). Funny thing 
>> is, the sample text showed in the face customization window is in the 
>> correct font, but the actual font in the org file (column view) is 
>> not. Also even after I forced the "Weight" to be "bold", that still 
>> did not work. My org-column face is as following:
>>
>>        Family: unspecified
>>         Width: unspecified
>>        Height: unspecified
>>        Weight: unspecified
>>         Slant: unspecified
>>    Foreground: unspecified
>>    Background: gray80
>>     Underline: unspecified
>>      Overline: unspecified
>> Strike-through: unspecified
>>           Box: unspecified
>>       Inverse: unspecified
>>       Stipple: unspecified
>> Font or fontset: nil
>>       Inherit: unspecified
>>
>> Thanks a lot if you can take a look of it.
>>
>> Wanrong
>>
>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In the column view, I often see some underlines and strike-through 
>>>> lines that show up kind of randomly. I have seen this for quite 
>>>> sometime, maybe since I began to use the column view 3 or 4 months 
>>>> ago. Are there any special meanings for those lines or they are 
>>>> just noise? I am now using Emacs 22.2 (on windows) and org-6.02. 
>>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> This happens because each column is an overlay over a one character 
>>> in the line below, and it seems that the properties of the 
>>> underlying faces are still coming through.  Column one
>>> has the properties of character one in the line, column two that of 
>>> character two, etc.
>>>
>>> Fixed now, I think.
>>>
>>> Why in the world would you be using a strike-through face?  There is 
>>> nothing more ugly in the world of typography than strike-through 
>>> faces, and web sites that use it immediately get onto the black list 
>>> of my parental control program :-)
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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