The answer is you can't, through pure Racket, because Racket delegates the nitty-gritty of font-file resolution to external font-handling libraries.
It is possible, however, to call into the `fontconfig` library via the FFI and make it do the heavy lifting of 1) scanning font directories to amass a list of possible fonts and then 2) finding a match for a certain query pattern, say a family name. > On Mar 31, 2020, at 4:52 PM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: > > IIUC every `font%` object must correspond to a particular font file on disk. > > If so, given a `font%` object, how do I extract the path to that file? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/C28B01B3-4772-4AA4-899C-78DADE7B8B2A%40mbtype.com.
