However, this feels like an extremely leaky, er, abstraction.  I think
it would be better if all y'all can find a solution that doesn't require
these extreme low-level hacks just to get text rendered properly.  I
kinda doubt that all package maintainers will expend the hackery time
needed to twiddle these knobs.

But for Emacs 24, that's probably not realistic?

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