Michael, that test case you suggest does indeed cause the same spacing
problem. So this isn't a problem from the vowel stacking in Tibetan,
because of the type of font it is? Sorry, generally new to Emacs so I'm not
sure how to move forward with that insight.


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Michael Brand
<michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Steffan
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Steffan Iverson
> <steffan.iverson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Screenshot: http://oi59.tinypic.com/lz893.jpg
>
> Judging from e. g. this part
> | རྐུས་  | rkus |
> | གསོས་ | gsos |
> in your screenshot my speculation is that you get glyphs from not only your
> default monospace font but also from other (maybe variable width) font(s).
> Either because some glyphs are not available in your default monospace font
> or are not used due to an incomplete configuration with set-fontset-font.
>
> For a diagnosis in this direction I would check the alignment of "|" after
> some characters just repeated like here:
>
> xxxxxxxxxx|
> ་་་་་་་་་་|
> གགགགགགགགགག|
> རརརརརརརརརར|
> སསསསསསསསསས|
> ུུུུུུུུུུ|
> ོོོོོོོོོོ|
> ྐྐྐྐྐྐྐྐྐྐ|
> xxxxxxxxxx|
> ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞|
>
> Michael
>