Thank you for the suggestion, but that didn't work on XP or Ubuntu. Should I submit the issue to Racket's github? I'm new to programming and don't know what the protocol is for things like this...
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote: > Oh, I see. I'm sorry I don't know what is going wrong. Different > versions of cairo/pango could be relevant, possibly. > > I doubt it is going to matter, but if you change the expression on > line 932 in collects/mrlib/image-core.rkt: > > (send dc draw-text (text-string np-atomic-shape) > (real-part p) > (imag-part p) > #f 0 θ) > > by turning the #f into a #t, does that change anything? > > Robby > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson > <clementraph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm sorry, I don't think I've explained the problem I'm having clearly. > > > > I have fonts that I'm using that map latin characters to neumes for > > byzantine chant music. So pressing "1" gives me a particular musical > symbol, > > and "a" gives me another symbol. I am trying to use text/font to render > > those symbols, so I call it with a "1" but I'm getting a "1" instead of > the > > musical symbol on certain platforms. This method works fine on Ubuntu > 12.04 > > 32bit and a Debian system that another user tested it on (I'm not sure of > > the version info), but it isn't working on Windows XP and on Ubuntu 12.10 > > 64bit. > > > > If you go to https://github.com/muraiki/byzscribe and scroll down to the > > picture, you can see what the output should look like. On platforms > where it > > doesn't work, instead of getting the musical symbols I simply get the > > textual string that should map to those symbols, such as 01a. > > > > You can download the font package, which includes a PDF with a character > > table, from here: > http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/ByzMusicFonts.zip > > The character table is EZ-CharacterTables.pdf > > > > The other symbol fonts that I've tried work in the same way, although > > instead of musical symbols they have other things like snowflakes and > > shapes. Those aren't the fonts that I need to use, but I wanted to make > sure > > that the problem didn't lie in the byzantine chant fonts. On platforms > where > > the byzantine chant fonts don't work as expected, no other symbol fonts > > work, either. > > > > I'm sorry if this is a bit confusing. Thank you for your help! > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Robby Findler < > ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> > > wrote: > >> > >> If you want to use, say, α, then you need an actual α in the string, not > >> an "a". > >> > >> I don't know how the dingbats work, but certainly that's how it works > >> for characters that are in the unicode character set. > >> > >> (You can type those characters by using their LaTeX equivalents and > >> then hitting control-\ or alt-\ (depending on the platform).) > >> > >> Robby > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:02 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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