Add custom underline cursor

As mentioned in jwilm/alacritty#931, it can be troublesome if a font has
an underline symbol outside of the glyph's bounding box. This can lead
to the underline disappearing at the bottom of the terminal.

As a solution a symbol from the private use area was used as the
character code for the underline symbol. Whenever this symbol is
encountered, instead of rendering it, a custom block is rendered.

In this implementation the block has the full character as width and
sits flush with the bottom of the glyph's bounding box. The height is
half the distance between the baseline and the bottom of the bounding
box.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/font/src/ft/mod.rs b/font/src/ft/mod.rs
index 6cd859e9..25917e96 100644
--- a/font/src/ft/mod.rs
+++ b/font/src/ft/mod.rs
@@ -294,6 +294,29 @@ impl FreeTypeRasterizer {
 
         let (pixel_width, buf) = Self::normalize_buffer(&glyph.bitmap())?;
 
+        // Render a custom symbol for the underline cursor
+        if glyph_key.c == '􊏢' {
+            // Get the bottom of the bounding box
+            let size_metrics = face.ft_face.size_metrics()
+                .ok_or(Error::MissingSizeMetrics)?;
+            let descent = (size_metrics.descender / 64) as f32;
+
+            // Create a new rectangle, the height is half the distance between
+            // bounding box bottom and the baseline
+            let height = f32::abs(descent / 2.) as i32;
+            let buf = vec![255u8; (pixel_width * height * 3) as usize];
+
+            // Create a custom glyph with the rectangle data attached to it
+            return Ok(RasterizedGlyph {
+                c: glyph_key.c,
+                top: descent as i32 + height,
+                left: glyph.bitmap_left(),
+                height,
+                width: pixel_width,
+                buf: buf,
+            });
+        }
+
         Ok(RasterizedGlyph {
             c: glyph_key.c,
             top: glyph.bitmap_top(),