Re: 23.0.60; bad link underlining in Info

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Drew Adams wrote:
> > See attached screenshots, one from Emacs 23, one from Emacs 22. In
> > Emacs 23, the underline is too close to the underlined characters.
> >
> > Also, both the link characters and the underline seem too heavy in
> > Emacs 23.
> >  
> >
> > In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
> >  of 2008-04-04 on LENNART-69DE564
> > Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> > configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags 
> > -Ic:/g/include
> > -fno-crossjumping'
>
> This is with the new font backend. Did not someone send a patch for it?

No, but it is a known limitation in the font-backend according to 
comments in xterm.c and w32term.c (the latter copied from the former).  
Now that we have it in bug tracking we can be sure it won't be forgotten.

     if (enable_font_backend)
       {
         if (s->face->font)
       /* In the future, we must use information of font.  */
       y = s->ybase + (s->face->font->max_bounds.descent + 1) / 2;

Currently there is no API in the font backend to deal with this cleanly, 
and I don't want to install a platform specific hack.  I think this, 
along with other improvements to the font backend (addressing 
performance) should wait until Kenichi Handa has finished the cleanup he 
is working on now.