[racket] Problem or bug in specifying GUI font

I'm using a recent (nightly build) DrRacket (5.3.0.1--2012-04-12) on Vista
and observe that 'roman works, but 'script and 'symbol fail with the
message at the top left corner of the frame in a normal sized windows
system font.


- Kieron.


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
>
> I'm using Windows Vista
> When I create a window with a title as follows:
>
> #lang racket/gui
>
> ;Top level window
> (define main-ocr-frame (new frame%
>                            [label  "DEVANAGARI OCR"]
>                            [width  10000]
>                            [height 10000]))
>
>
> ;Main title
> (define title (new message%
>                   [parent main-ocr-frame]
>                   [label "DEVANAGARI OCR PROJECT"]
>                   [font (make-object font% 40 <font-name>  'normal
> 'bold)]))
>
>
> (send main-ocr-frame show #t);display window
>
> It works correctly if <font-name> is any of:
> 'modern
> 'default
> 'system
> 'decorative
> 'swiss
>
> but if <font-name> is any of:
> 'roman
> 'script
> 'symbol
>
> Then the font size stays small and doesn't increase no matter what I
> set the font size to, but as I increase the font size all that happens
> is that the message label gets pushed farther and farther to the left.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
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