Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> There's no min-width in this counter-example, so how does it
> contradict what I said?  'height and 'raise make sense when combined
> in the way you did (i.e. one completely nested inside the other), but
> what would be the sense of 'min-width and 'height that partially
> overlap?

It's the same with any min-width -- I just thought raise/height was
easier to see.

(progn
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (insert "Foo bar zot gazonk\n")
  (add-display-text-property 4 8 'height 2.0) 
  (add-display-text-property 2 12 'min-width '(40.0)))

yields