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Subject: Re: Unfortunate pixel width of one TAB
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    Is this a bug in Emacs or in the font metrics?

I don't know whether there is a bug in the font metrics, but we don't
need to answer that question.  We definitely should fix Emacs to
use the width of space to compute the width of tab.