[Geany-Users] underscores
Ray Andrews
rayandrews at xxxxx
Sun Feb 7 00:49:18 UTC 2021
On 2021-02-06 3:00 p.m., Lex Trotman wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 01:09, angelo.moreschini at medident-sw.it
> <angelo.moreschini at medident-sw.it> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I also had this problem (the underscore does not appear in the text).
>> After some research I realized that the fact is a consequence of the size of the characters, and by increasing the size of the characters, the underscore sign is clearly visible.
> The issue is how fractional numbers are rounded to an integer number
> of pixels for the line height, something about the Deva-Vu font
> metrics and/or the positioning of the underscore in relation to them
> when converted to the pixel size of the screen produce a line height
> thats actually too small to include the underscore when rounded to
> integer number of pixels, so the next line overwrites the underscore.
> So yes changing size changes the fraction and whether the rounded
> line height is too small or just includes the underscore. The
> workaround in the issue does not need to change the size as it adds
> extra pixels to the line height.
Just asking: why is this not an issue for me? As I mentioned, my
underscore was too faint and too low, but it was always at least there.
How can it be missing entirely? Some font sizes were better than others
tho. Anway I now have the thing twice as fat and a wee bit higher so
there's no missing it.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>> To solve the problem just access the view menu and then the <change font> sub-menu.
>> By accessing this option a dialogue appears in which at the bottom it is possible to vary the size of the characters using a slicer.
>>
>> For me it was enough to set the value to 12 to allow to see the underscore sign.
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