> I would like to use the Character Spacing slider to adjust the Andale
> Mono font's character spacing, which in my opinion is too wide by
> default. However, as the sliders are missing from the Emacs font
> selection dialog, it is not possible. How come this exists in the
> Terminal's font selection dialog, but not in Emacs'? Is it non-standard?

Short answer: Terminal.app and other OS X apps use Cocoa text widgets,
whereas Emacs.app is drawing characters on a canvas, with spacing
dictated by emacs itself.  The H spacing slider could be simulated,
but by implementing it ourselves, not using the Cocoa inbuilt
facility.

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