bug#33648: 25.2; feature request: configurable position of strike-through line

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 33648 + confirmed
thanks

Robert Samal <samal@iuuk.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

> When I use set-face-attribute to give some text a strike-through
> attribute, I see that emacs behaves differently from other pieces of
> software: Apparently, the line is drawn at the level of half the glyph's
> height -- which causes the line to be just touching letters like "a",
> "c", "e", ... and it isn't perceived as striking the text out (at least
> not by me).
>
> In comparison, web browsers interpreting html strike tag make the
> line at the level of half of the "small lowercase letters" -- basically
> at the level of the line in lowercase "e". The same is done by Libre
> Office ... and others.
>
> My suggestion is to make this configurable in some way. I'm not sure,
> if it would be better to have a global option for all files, or
> if "(set-face-attribute ... :strike-through" should accept more choices
> to make each line configurable. (I personally would change all of my
> striking lines, if possible.)
>
> Thanks in advance for considering this, for some uses (in particular
> org-mode) this would help a lot.

This is what I see on current master:

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