We have a tool window panel that shows announcemen...

# jewel

[Kate Liu]

We have a tool window panel that shows announcements with markdown rendering. After upgrading to Jewel, the code sort of text has a lot of extra space around it. We're not sure if this is an issue with the upgrade or if this is something else, and I didn't see anything in the issue tracker yet. Do you have any ideas what we could do to limit the space around these words?

[seb]

Remove emojis :P jokes aside, you can try reducing the line height in the text style, but unfortunately Compose doesn't give us control over the background drawing, so for now that is it...

[seb]

The emojis thing btw is actually not entirely facetious — emojis do increase the line height

[Kate Liu]

Ah okay , thank you for clarifying 🙌 will keep the emojis thing in mind too! Haha

[seb]

I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for now

[seb]

I'm pushing the Compose text team to provide more flexible spans. They're not against it, but I don't know when it'll happen. Not in 1.8 for sure.

[seb]

The only alternative is grabbing the text layout and doing the BG drawing by hand but that's not always ideal. It works, but it's not ideal. Something like https://github.com/saket/extended-spans

[Kate Liu]

Cool, thank you! I'll look into the alternative

[seb]

If you do end up implementing that and would like to do a PR to Jewel to mainline the change, we'd appreciate it 🙂