Re: Does face support underline other than a straight line?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Chong Yidong writes:
 > Leo <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > I found in other editors something like this:
 > >
 > > ie they support wave underline. I am curious whether emacs can do this
 > > too?
 > 
 > I think implementing this would be a pain in the butt, since underlining
 > is currently done with primitive X calls.

If Emacs supports background pixmaps to attach to faces, then it
should be possible to create an appropriate pixmap on the fly.