[racket] text/font not rendering symbol fonts on WinXP

Using that dll fixed the problem on Windows XP 32bit!

Using the 64-bit one on Windows 7 64-bit didn't work, though.

Also, I was able to test out text/font with a symbol font on OS X 10.8.2,
and it also would not render the symbol font.

I found somebody who had made TeX fonts for byzantine neumes, and using
mftrace I was able to generate a unicode-compatible TTF. That works like a
charm on all platforms, even though the standard letters have been replaced
by symbols. I found out that there's actually space reserved in the unicode
standard for byzantine neumes, but nobody has yet done the work of making
such a font.

Thank you again for your help!

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:44:36 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>
> wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, patching Pango means compiling it myself for Windows,
> > > which is a tedious task that I had so far avoided. Maybe it's
> > > unavoidable, though.
> >
> > Does it make sense to try to leverage Eli's nightly build setup to
> > automate this task?
>
> No. The problem isn't regularly building the library, but setting up an
> environment that can compile it just once. I thought that my recent
> experience with mingw32/mingw64 to compile GMP and MPFR might help me
> compile Pango, but it seems that I'm still not expert enough.
>
>
> Meanwhile, it occurs to me that it's easy to just patch the binary ---
> a one-byte change should do it.
>
> Clement, can you try one of the following (the one matching your Racket
> installation) as a replacement for "libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll" in the
> "lib" directory of your Racket installation?
>
> Win32:
>
> http://download.racket-lang.org/libs/10/win32/i386/libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
> Win64:
>
> http://download.racket-lang.org/libs/10/win32/x86_64/libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
>
>
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