Re: Underlines and strike-through lines in column view

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

Feedback: I just tested again on org 6.03, and the "line noises" are 
still there in the column view.

Wanrong

Wanrong Lin wrote:
>
> Just a reminder: do you have any TODO faces with strike-through lines? 
> Remember the line noises will only happen when that is true.
>
> Also, maybe there are some other check-ins after your patch that fixed 
> this. I only tried your patch, not the latest GIT revision. I can just 
> wait until next release to test again.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Wanrong
>
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> Hi Wanrong,
>>
>> I cannot reproduce this,, works just fine for me.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On May 8, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, Carsten,
>>>
>>> I just tried your patch for this fix, the column view faces are OK 
>>> now, but those strike-through line noises come back again. Seems we 
>>> can not get both. :-)
>>>
>>> Wanrong
>>>
>>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>> Fixed, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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