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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> Feel free to tell me to piss off because of this message being off-topic.
> But where should I pee?  (I don't dare post this to the Emacs developers,
> nor gnu.emacs.help...)

Heh, I can't even get the current source code for Emacs 21 to work at all.
It barfs immediately with a wrong-type-argument listp "font-name" and
aborts.  *sigh*

> I'm a happy user of Emacs 21, but the default text font used by W3 is
> awful.  Here's what I get when doing M-x list-text-properties-at RET on
> an inconspicuous piece of text in a simple HTML page:

Are you using the CVS versions of Emacs/W3?  That has better support for
Emacs 21 than 4.0.3[46].

-Bill P.