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