GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 686179
Text rendering feature - overline
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:06:11 UTC
It would be nice to have a option to overline text, similar to the underline support currently in Pango. There is even a working implementation available here: http://ljh4timm.home.xs4all.nl/gaf/dox_gschem/gschem__pango_8c-source.html This missing feature is currently preventing me from implementing a Pango/Cairo backend for a large software project.
Any chance you can attach a patch against pango? I don't have time to work on this.
Here is a working link to that code: http://ljh4timm.home.xs4all.nl/gaf/dox_gschem/gschem__pango_8c_source.html
Matthias, feel free to review and push this in.
Is this still going? It'd be awesome (in particular to vte) to have an overline attribute, even though I don't think any actual terminal ever had it. For technical drawings, maybe a Unicode combining overline (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0305/index.htm) would suffice. Actually, also having leftline and rightline attributes would be absolutely perfect (for using text attributes to draw crosshairs on terminals), but I agree that would probably be best served with a new enhancement request. Is there anything I can do to help expedite this?
(In reply to Ricardo Bánffy from comment #4) > Is this still going? It'd be awesome (in particular to vte) to have an > overline attribute, even though I don't think any actual terminal ever had > it. Nobody is working on it. > Is there anything I can do to help expedite this? Write a patch.
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