[1 mod] [Ubuntu Mono] Consecutive underscores should have visible separation

Bug #827641 reported by Karim Moussa
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Font Family
In Progress
Medium
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fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

1. At a terminal: pango-view --font="Ubuntu Mono 12" --markup --text='<span fallback="false"> ABC _ __ ___ ____</span>'

Hello,
I would like to propose that the font render underscores in such a way that consecutive underscores have breaks in between them rather than making one long line. That would make it easier to verify at a glance that, for example, a preprocessor macro in C starts with two underscores rather than three. You can estimate that from the length of the line, but it would be easier if it were visible at a glance.

This is mutually exclusive with bug 882348, requesting no space between underscores.

Tags: uff-dmi
Revision history for this message
Karim Moussa (karim-moussa) wrote :

Oh, sorry, I forgot to add that I'm talking about the Monospaced font.

Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - No separation of consecutive underscores?
+ [1 mod] No separation of consecutive underscores?
summary: - [1 mod] No separation of consecutive underscores?
+ [1 mod] No separation of consecutive underscores
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: uff-dmi
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
milestone: none → 0.92-beta-test
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Paul Sladen (sladen)
summary: - [1 mod] No separation of consecutive underscores
+ [1 mod] [Ubuntu Mono] No separation of consecutive underscores
summary: - [1 mod] [Ubuntu Mono] No separation of consecutive underscores
+ [1 mod] [Ubuntu Mono] Consecutive underscores should have visible
+ separation
description: updated
Changed in fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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