[plt-scheme] Arbitrary TTF fonts in MrEd

At Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:29:29 +0100, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
> As far as I understand it is impossible to use arbitrary (supplied with 
> the application; without a system-wide installation) TTF fonts in MrEd?
> 
> I undertand that there were some supported platforms in the past which 
> didn't support TTF fonts at all and that it is good to look as native as 
> possible but I hope to achive some more consistent visual style on 
> Win32, OS X and modern Linux in an industrial automation app in which I 
> won't even use native widgets.
> 
> Would such a thing be difficult to add?

I don't know.

My guess is that each platform provides a function that takes a
filename containing a TTF font, and it adds the font to the set
available for the application to use. If that's right, then maybe you
could use `scheme/foreign' to call the function, and then you could use
the font name as a "face" in the `font%' world.


Matthew