Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 43776
Underlining should optionally skip descenders and characters below baseline
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
When underlining text that composed of characters with descenders, the underline will overstrike the descenders and reduce readability. The problem is worse in languages with a lot of combining characters such as Thai. Thai language has some characters with long descenders and some combining characters that are below the baseline. Indic scripts will also have the same issue. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156881 Please look at the attached Writer file. It shows English and Thai text when underlined continuously and when underlined but manually skipping descenders/char-below-baseline. This shows how the feature might look. There might be an option in Format->Character>Font Effects to enable the skipping feature.
Created attachment 23165 [details] Compare continuous underline and skipping-descenders underline
confirmed.
This not only for Thai and Indic scripts, but also for "Latin" script (and problaby others) as well. Example of Latin characters that has some part below the base line: U+0067 g U+006A j U+0070 p U+0071 q U+0079 y U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla U+00FD Latin Small Letter Y with Acute U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn U+0104 Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng
see also, issue 10708 : RFE: implement CSS3 text mode - text decoration
Reassigned to SBA.
SBA: Reassigned to FT.
set target to OOo Later.
FT: Re-assigned to requirement default user
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