Julian Bradfield writes: Julian> Of course, this has now raised the question of how XEmacs should deal Julian> with such characters. [...] Julian> What should XEmacs do? I can see two obvious options: (1) XEmacs Julian> should treat outsize characters as it treats any other random glyph, Julian> and increase the line height accordingly. (2) XEmacs should continue Julian> to use the font_ascent to determine line spacing, and redisplay needs Julian> to redisplay the area into which an outsize character extends. Julian> Leaving aside the fact that (1) is much easier than (2), it's not Julian> clear to me what the *right* thing to do is. Anybody feel like Julian> worrying about it? (2) seems like a better solution, notably because the problem you describe is not the only one. There are cases where a similar effect can be seen, but horizontally this time, e.g. when using italic fonts. Another source of partial character fuckage comes from the way redisplay is done for cursor motions. Appart from that, we have plans to work again on the redisplay engine, several people (myself included) have volunteered for that, but nobody has much time to spend on it these days... -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19