Of course it would help if I tried a font that was actually installed on my
machine...
Under Win2K, the following hunk of elisp works for me in a -vanilla
XEmacs
built from the 21.4.5 windows sources, but does not work for me
against the
latest 21.4.6 windows sources (according to the CVS tag windows-21-4):
So weirder and weirder, this works for me when in a custom file but not
with -vanilla....
<grumpy>
and despite Jan's protestations reverting cus-face.el to the 21.4.5 version
cures this, so it really *is* Jan/Stephen's patch and I assume they will do
something about it this time.
</grumpy>
andy