Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>  Dan,
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>>I just finished a sparring session with Unix during which I found it really frustrating not to be able to see or select linefeeds, since they have zero width in the default font.  Back in the old days I remember writing a big do-it which ran around and ensured that all the default fonts had widths of at least 1 for their undefined glyphs.
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>>My question is:  Was this a good thing and no one has had the time yet to do it for the new fonts?
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I think it mostly just went unnoticed, but I agree that it's a good 
thing for the undefined glyphs to have at least some width.  It makes it 
easier to notice when linefeeds are there which shouldn't be, etc.  I 
don't recall anyone arguing that they should have a width of zero.

So if you wanted to create an enhancement do-it which converts the 
existing fonts in the image, we could probably incorporate that.

- Doug


>>If so I might be willing to perform this enhancement again.
>>If not,  I'm curious why (just point me at the archives if it has
>>all been hashed over before).
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>  I don't like it either.  The m17n package for 3.7 alpha does the
>same hack to make them have one pixel width.
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>-- Yoshiki
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