Oops, replace FONT-SIZE with whatever size font you want... sorry, I pasted that from code in something I'm working on!
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson < clementraph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now I'm experiencing the same problem in Ubuntu 12.10. No symbol fonts > render when using text/font; I only get the latin text equivalent. I tried > this using the Dingbats font built into Ubuntu along with custom symbol > fonts I had downloaded. Both Dingbats and the other symbol fonts I > downloaded work fine in other programs. > > The system where this did work correctly was an Ubuntu 12.04 machine > (running under a VM). The Ubuntu 12.10 machine I'm using now is a fresh OS > installation using the 64-bit binary downloaded from the Racket site. > > Is anyone else using Ubuntu 12.10? Can you try running the following code? > > (require 2htdp/image) > (text/font "test" FONT-SIZE "black" "Dingbats" 'symbol 'normal 'normal #f) > > This should render some triangles and a snowflake, not "test". > > Thanks! > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Robby Findler < > ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> The text/font function ultimately just calls find-or-create-font with >> the font details and then draw-string on the dc<%> with the string, so >> I guess that this is either a problem at that level of the Racket GUI >> system, or something that is just different about how Windows works >> from other platforms. (Sorry I don't know the right answer here.) >> >> Robby >> >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson >> <clementraph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm a newcomer to Racket and I ran into a problem with the text/font >> > function in 2htdp/image. stamourv on #racket helped me diagnose this, >> and it >> > seems to be a problem confined to Windows XP. When using text/font with >> a >> > symbol font like Wingdings or Symbol (standard symbol fonts included >> with >> > Windows) the character is not rendered. Instead, I get whatever the >> > equivalent Roman character would be. >> > >> > For instance: >> > >> > (define testingfont >> > (text/font "012abc" 36 "black" >> > "Wingdings" 'default 'normal 'normal #f)) >> > >> > If I then type testingfont into the interactions window, instead of >> > rendering a series of symbols I get the input string 012abc instead. I >> also >> > tried using 'symbol instead of 'default. We tried the same code on >> Debian >> > (stamourv) and Ubuntu (me) and it worked fine on those platforms. >> > >> > I'm running Windows XP 32-bit, and I am using Racket 5.3.1. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > ____________________ >> > Racket Users list: >> > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> > >> > >
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