Subject: Re: bug#321: Underline drawing that leaves gaps for descenders

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:08:34 +0200

David De La Harpe Golden <[email-masked]> writes:

> Ideally, underlining would be able to break at (leave gaps for)
> descenders (in latin script typically gjpqy and some old-style
> numerals), to improve legibility.

Looking at the images, it does improve legibility in some cases, but in
other cases it looks kinda awkward -- as if the underlining stops and
then starts again.

So I don't really feel that something like this would be a display
improvement.

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