GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 704605
letters are not aligned in board numbering in 3D view
Last modified: 2013-07-22 20:54:50 UTC
To see the problem, enable 3D view and board numbering. Look at the letters "a" through "h" at the bottom of the board. They look ragged: "a", "c" and "e" appear a bit higher than "b" and "d". Instead, the letters should be aligned so that you could draw a straight line through the baselines of all these characters.
Created attachment 249703 [details] [review] 3D: improve alignment of file numbers
Created attachment 249704 [details] [review] 3D: improve alignment of file letters
Comment on attachment 249703 [details] [review] 3D: improve alignment of file numbers Adam, does this patch look good to you?
I applied the patch and yes, this looks much better. The only remaining problem is that part of the descender on the letter 'g' is clipped off. (I'll attach a screenshot.)
Created attachment 249759 [details] screenshot
As you can see in the screenshot, at the top of the board the letter 'g' is also cut off, and the letter 'b' touches the board which is different from how the 'b' at the bottom of the board looks. I'm not sure if the intention is to create a 3D effect in which the chess squares are elevated above the surrounding margin. If so, then maybe the letters at the top of the board appear OK (i.e. they extend below the squares of the chessboard), but the raised effect still doesn't look quite right to me overall.
Review of attachment 249704 [details] [review]: If you resize your window slowly, you'll see that at some window sizes, the bottom of the bottom 'g' is nearly there, but resizing just a bit, the bottom of the 'g' disappears. So it looked good to me by bad luck.
Created attachment 249798 [details] [review] 3D: improve alignment of file letters
Created attachment 249799 [details] Screenshot of attempt #2 Here's what I'm seeing now; it looks good to me, but the bottom of the top 'g' is still slightly over the edge of the board. I think I'm content with this, but I'd like to see another screenshot from your end, since it looks like for you the portion of the 'g' overlapping the board disappears entirely.
Created attachment 249813 [details] screenshot Here's a screenshot from my machine with this latest patch. I think it looks pretty much like yours: the top 'g' overlaps the top of the board slightly. I could certainly live with this.
OK. I might return to this later and try for better, but I can't think of anything else to try now that wouldn't be a hack, or make the letters too small. Thanks for the report!
Comment on attachment 249798 [details] [review] 3D: improve alignment of file letters Attachment 249798 [details] pushed as e0889e8 - 3D: improve alignment of file letters