Re: Underlines and strike-through lines in column view

[Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>]

Hi, Carsten,

I just tried org-mode version 6.02b, which seems to have the fix 
included. Glad those "line noises" disappeared. However, there seems to 
be some new (compared with 6.02) problems now:

1. Before the fix (6.02), faces of headings in org files are preserved 
in the column view. In 6.02b, text in column view is all in the same 
face. Can we restore the 6.02 behavior?
2. Customization for org-column face does not work right. Even though I 
only customized the "background" property of org-column face and hence 
expect the font stays the same as my default font (a bold font), but the 
font changes to regular (no bold text). Funny thing is, the sample text 
showed in the face customization window is in the correct font, but the 
actual font in the org file (column view) is not. Also even after I 
forced the "Weight" to be "bold", that still did not work. My org-column 
face is as following:

         Family: unspecified
          Width: unspecified
         Height: unspecified
         Weight: unspecified
          Slant: unspecified
     Foreground: unspecified
     Background: gray80
      Underline: unspecified
       Overline: unspecified
 Strike-through: unspecified
            Box: unspecified
        Inverse: unspecified
        Stipple: unspecified
Font or fontset: nil
        Inherit: unspecified

Thanks a lot if you can take a look of it.

Wanrong

Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the column view, I often see some underlines and strike-through 
>> lines that show up kind of randomly. I have seen this for quite 
>> sometime, maybe since I began to use the column view 3 or 4 months 
>> ago. Are there any special meanings for those lines or they are just 
>> noise? I am now using Emacs 22.2 (on windows) and org-6.02. Thank you.
>
> This happens because each column is an overlay over a one character in 
> the line below, and it seems that the properties of the underlying 
> faces are still coming through.  Column one
> has the properties of character one in the line, column two that of 
> character two, etc.
>
> Fixed now, I think.
>
> Why in the world would you be using a strike-through face?  There is 
> nothing more ugly in the world of typography than strike-through 
> faces, and web sites that use it immediately get onto the black list 
> of my parental control program :-)
>
> - Carsten
>