> I'm not seeing much of a change, if any:
 >
 > - My init script stills results in a frame 84 columns wide.
 >
 > - The frame still shrinks at certain width ranges.
 >
 > Attached are the contents of foo after doing this:
 >
 >    (set-frame-width nil 102)
 >    (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 110 :family "InconsolataLGC")
 >
 > The second line was evaluated 5 times.

Thanks.  It seems that we really have to disentangle the entire size
hint stuff to get reasonable outer sizes.  Next patch attached.

martin