Bug 81887

Summary:	Allow kate to display text with different line spacing
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Verdi March <cincaipatron>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bluedzins, christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Verdi March 2004-05-20 05:47:00 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I believe giving kate an option to adjust the line spacing
displayed can be useful. For instance, the "kile (display)"
scheme could display text using 1.5 line spacing.

Comment 1 Verdi March 2004-08-27 09:05:33 UTC

A screenshot comparing text display in Kile and Winshell is
available at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~verdimar/spacing.png

The font used is "Courrier New 9pt" and is displayed at 96dpi.
The left-side is Kile (1 spacing) and the right-side is
Winshell (1.5 spacing, I believe).

Comment 2 Anders Lund 2004-09-27 21:14:44 UTC

This would not be too hard to provide I assume. Hamish, could we have KateFontMetrics keep track of a line spacing, and would that be enough?

Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2006-07-19 16:05:32 UTC

Very useful feature -- I opt for line spacing per application, so when it is set is set for good for all documents.
It is not just a matter of artistic look (like in word processors) but text readability -- I use Courier font, 11 size, and 1-2 pixel after each line would be a great help.

Comment 4 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-01-23 22:48:19 UTC

And letter spacing as well -- as before, easier reading (it has nothing to do with font size, small, big, it is always tightly packed).

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-29 05:58:39 UTC

We use now QTextLayout and such alterations are no longer simply possible as Qt handles the layout. This will make the code even more complex and therefore won't happen.