I'm not sure what the right answer is here, but in some specific cases that have happened to me along these lines, I've found that specifying 'italic or 'bold works out.
Sorry that's not much to go on. Robby On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Joel Dueck <dueckofe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, long time lurker/first time posting here. I have been working on > this one for a couple of days and can't seem to figure it out. > > I'm having an issue where on macOS, there are some fonts/variants returned > by get-face-list that I can't actually use with a drawing function like > text. > > #lang racket > (require pict racket/draw) > > (define (list-fonts str) > (filter (lambda(s) (string=? str (substring s 0 (min (string-length str) > (string-length s))))) > (get-face-list #:all-variants? #t))) > > (define (demo-font str) > (apply vl-append (map (lambda (f) (text f f 30)) (list-fonts str)))) > > Attached is a screenshot comparison of the results of this code on Windows > and macOS, both using Racket 6.12. > > To sum up the problem “narratively”, as it were: on Windows, among the > strings returned by get-face-list is "IBM Plex Sans Text, Medium" and I can > do (text "Hello" "IBM Plex Sans Text, Medium" 30), and pict will draw using > that font. > > But on macOS, where get-face-list will include the string "IBM Plex Sans, > Text" (note comma), if I do (text "Hello" "IBM Plex Sans, Text"), I instead > get the result in the default sans serif font. > > Furthermore, all of IBM Plex Sans’s 16 weights work properly on > macOS/Racket—except the "Text" weight! > > A similar problem happens with some other fonts on macOS, e.g. Halyard Micro > Regular and Halyard Micro Book — the Regular weight works but the Book > weight displays using the Regular weight, despite using the exact string > found in get-face-list as the font/variant name in the call to text. > > I did my main example using IBM Plex Sans since it's a free font [1] should > anyone wish to replicate my results for themselves. > > How would I best go about finding out what is happening here? Are certain > words like “book” or “text” just not recognized/useable as a font weight on > macOS? Apologies if I’m missing something obvious! > > [1]: https://ibm.github.io/type/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
