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> > Is this the right fix (not properly tested) ?
> 
> Hmm, that seems to fix things `sort of' -- it allows different fonts to
> be set, and displayed but the font metrics are sometimes right,
> sometimes wrong, e.g., using standard fonts, Courier10 - Courier18 look
> correct, but Courier8 still has incorrectly sized tabs.  However this
> may be a separate bug.

I can't provoke incorrectly sized tabs here.  But my setup is rather
vanilla.  Hm.