The `fontland` library does not have an official public API but it will give you the answer, which is 1446.
#lang racket (require fontland fontland/ttf-glyph) (define f (open-font "/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Unicode.ttf")) ;; `layout` uses OpenType positioning & substitution tables to create a glyph run, ;; which is a structure with two vectors: a vector of glyphs and a vector of glyph positions ;; once we have the glyph we can `glyph-decode` it and inspect its yMax value. (match (layout f "♖") [(glyphrun (vector glyph _ ...) _) (hash-ref (glyph-decode glyph) 'yMax)]) > On 21 Jul 20, at 4:25 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > It helps to use the correct font... > > It turns out the chess rook is not in "Courier", it is in "Arial Unicode MS". > The raw pango functions aren't clever enough to find an alternative font, > but I think `text` from `pict` is. I am not sure of the details here though. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/43A50577-DCC4-49DE-B33E-8CB16A1B2A10%40mbtype.com.
