[Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: LibreOffice underline problem

[Nino Novak]

Hi Sooraj,

Am 24.10.2014 um 11:01 schrieb sooraj kenoth:

> While using the LibreOffice, I have some problems with the the
> underline. In Malayalam we have a lot of stacked characters. In the
> current way of drawing underline, it strikes the stacked letters. It
> is annoying and it kills the legibility. Please find the screen-shot
> here <https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=102053>
> 
> I have reported the bug here. But they didn't accept. I don't know what to do.
> <https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80724>

IMHO, here you are right and Joel is wrong: The described behavior is
obviously unwanted and therefore clearly *is* a bug.

Though in this case it might be better characterized as an "enhancement
request" as seemingly nobody did think about a solution until now and
therefore the requirement "make underlining independant from font" has not
been considered yet. (At least this is what I am thinking when looking at
the problem).

So I would change it to "NEW" and "Enhancement Request" and you should try
to "get it fixed". But be patient: probably a completely new underline
functionality must be implemented, which looks like a rather complex task to
me - but I'm not a dev, maybe there exist simpler solutions/workarounds.

my2¢

Nino