The problem is, though, that this doesn't really solve anything.
Whether you put a `display' property on the text, or you pad it with
spaces, the result is much the same: If you kill'n'yank the text to a
different buffer, and want to use it there, you still have to deal with
the pesky extra padding.  With the `display' hack it's even worse,
because there's not obvious way to get rid of the padding.

So I think this approach isn't quite workable.

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