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

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson
<clementraphael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh, that's great! If you can use this path, then I think you'll find
things much smoother.

Robby