Strange response with emacs

[don fisher]

don fisher wrote:
> There is a difference in the way the same version of emacs runs on 9.10 
> and 10.10. In 9.10, the space bar moves the cursor one the width of one 
> character. In 10.10, the space bar moves the character the width of 1/2 
> of a character. This destroys my formatting.
> 
> I installed emacs_23.1+1-4ubuntu2+22.2+0ubuntu6.2_all.deb on both 
> machines, believing that they would behave the same. Does anybody have 
> an idea as to what else might be different?
> 
> If this is the wrong list, please suggest an alternative.

I guess it was the font. They must have "fixed" the fonts between 9.10 
and 10.10. If I run emacs like:

emacs -fn 7x14

it works as desired. I would like to understand how the fonts are put 
together. This should be pretty basic stuff.