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24.2.90; underwave doesn't look as good as other IDEs

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Cc: aurelien.aptel <at> gmail.com, 13000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13000: 24.2.90; underwave doesn't look as good as other IDEs
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:33:18 +0200

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> The problem I am seeing seems to be specific to Mac Port
> that I am using.

The problem occurs in X11 builds on GNU/Linux too.

With a small font the underwave line turns into a dashed line.
For example, with the following small fonts it looks like

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

[flybad1.png (image/png, inline)]

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-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

[flybad2.png (image/png, inline)]

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Only with a bigger font, it looks like a wave:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1

[flybad3.png (image/png, inline)]

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However, the proposed patch provides much better graceful degradation,
where even with small fonts the line looks like a wave, for example:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

[flyok1.png (image/png, inline)]

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-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

[flyok2.png (image/png, inline)]

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-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1

[flyok3.png (image/png, inline)]

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I believe this confirms the patch is an improvement.

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