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... <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:clementraphael@gmail.com">clementraphael@gmail.com</a>> 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 <a href="https://github.com/muraiki/byzscribe" target="_blank">https://github.com/muraiki/byzscribe</a> 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: <a href="http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/ByzMusicFonts.zip" target="_blank">http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/ByzMusicFonts.zip</a> > 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 <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> > 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 >> <<a href="mailto:clementraphael@gmail.com">clementraphael@gmail.com</a>> 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 >> > <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> >> > 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 >> >> <<a href="mailto:clementraphael@gmail.com">clementraphael@gmail.com</a>> 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: >> >> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> >> >> > >> > >> > > > </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>