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Re: Terrible underline
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Terrible underline |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:02:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"Francesc Rocher" <address@hidden> 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?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum