Ruler improvements

[PouncingPanda]

I've been using the ruler (with line box color 128,128,255 and line column color 193,193,255) such that the line column ticks are very faint so they don't obstruct the line I'm editing too much.  However I've noticed that even this causes portions of characters to be completely overridden making them sometimes hard to read.

As a suggestion I think it would be really cool to have the ruler (or at least the line column) have alpha information so it could always appear over letters but not obliterate them (letters such as capital 'L' in my font have the top half cut off).

[chrisant]

Some thoughts:

Can you post a screen shot of your font getting the top of characters cut off?

Normally fonts have "leading" so that there is at least a small amount of space at the top of and bottom of glyphs (for example so glyphs from two lines don't touch).  Perhaps your font chooses to have no leading?

Alpha-channeling comes at a performance cost, and may have undesirable side effects.

[PouncingPanda]

Performance cost wouldn't be an issue if people could turn the feature off.  Here are some photos (if I find a more annoying cutoff of a character I'll add it, these aren't too bad but give you the idea):







Font: ProggyTinyTT size 11 ( http://www.proggyfonts.com/ - everybody should check out proggy fonts BTW )