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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The idea is to interpret "12" in units of the canonical frame's
> character width, and do the calculations in pixels.  I think this is
> good enough, as I don't envision a need for Lisp programs to fine-tune
> the position at pixel granularity.

Yeah, that probably wouldn't be very useful.  So the %12b thing sound
good to me.

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