Re: Terrible underline

[David Kastrup]

"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