Ron,

> That seems to make the black outlines go away (though /why/ I can't
> begin to imagine). It's still cutting off the tops of letters and
> the descenders, though.
> 
> The TextMorph does that as well. The font displays properly in Word
> (excuse the obscenity, please).

  Is it the top and descenders, or is it actually the sides
(the area beyond the imaginery rectangle whose width of the "advance
width"?

  Squeak's renderer cannot handle the glyph that is wider than the
advance width.  It is not difficult to fix... Somebody should do it^^;

-- Yoshiki