Re: Several suggestions for image support

[Richard Stallman]

    But if the text in the line is taller than the ordinary line height,
    the text height "wins".

That's right when the text is taller.  Text that is shorter
is another case.

    >                                                                   That
    > would mean putting the newlines into the ordinary font even though the
    > text around them is in a smaller font.  That would work provided the
    > fill commands know how to keep the newlines in the ordinary font.
    >

    We could accomplish this by setting the line-height property to the
    pixel height of a specific face *) The effect of this would be that
    newlines would have the height of that face, rather than the current
    font.

That seems like an approach that could work.

    BTW, the line-height and line-spacing properties are currently only
    supported as text-properties; should this be extended to check for
    overlays too?

I don't see a use for them as overlays.