[plt-scheme] DrScheme font smoothing

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Fri Jan 29 02:05:04 EST 2010

On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:57 PM, Ryan Culpepper wrote:

> John Clements wrote:
>> This is on a super-bare-bones debian lenny installation, and there's
>> probably something REALLY OBVIOUS that needs to be installed or
>> fixed.
> 
> I had font troubles recently on a fresh Ubuntu install. In my case I think the problem was that I was missing a fontconfig dev package. Does your menu show TrueType fonts at all? If not, that might be your problem.

The menu shows some TrueType fonts, but selecting them just seems to default to something courier-like. Again: other apps (emacs) work fine, and show smoothed fonts. It's just DrScheme, alas.

Yes, I have the libfontconfig1-dev debian package installed.

Thanks, though!

John

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