Music font problem

[Tony Lambregts]

Andrew Johnson wrote:

> I originally posted this to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, where it 
> was suggested I send a copy here.  Please CC: replies to me as I'm not 
> subscribed to wine-devel.  TIA!
>
> I have been using a shareware program called Noteworthy Composer for
> many years on Windows, but am trying to switch to a Linux-only setup
> and this is one the last obstacles.  I don't want to switch to the
> other Linux music programs as to my mind they don't provide as simple 
> an interface as NWC does, and I already have many song files in the 
> NWC format.  The main problem with running this is that it uses its 
> own TrueType Font, which doesn't display properly under Wine - I just 
> get outline boxes instead of the note symbols.
>
> Here's how I got to where I am right now:
>
> I tried various RPM versions of wine on my RH8.0 system, and finally
> downloaded the Wine source and did a cvs update and build about a week
> ago.  The first problem was that I was using a fake C drive and the
> NWCV15.TTF font was the only one found, and was being used for all
> text including menus & dialog boxes - this just doesn't make sense,
> the NWCV15 font is analagous to a symbol font and doesn't have text
> characters, so everything came out totally illegible, although
> recognizable enough to see that it was mostly working.
>
> I installed a few standard TTF fonts in the windows\Fonts directory to
> fix that, but then the program wouldn't start, complaining that it 
> couldn't find its special font NWCV15.ttf, which had been correctly 
> installed in the C:\Windows\Fonts directory.  I ran wine with 
> --debugmsg +font and added a few more TRACE() statements to 
> dlls/gdi/freetype.c, and discovered that the font was being ignored by 
> Wine because the program doesn't specify SYMBOL_CHARSET when 
> requesting the font; Windows finds the font but Wine doesn't.
>
> There is a specific check in the routine WineEngCreateFontInstance to
> compare the font name requested with "Symbol" and in that case to set
> the charset being searched for to SYMBOL_CHARSET.  When I add similar
> code for the font name "NWCV15" the program now starts up and finds
> its font, but doesn't display it correctly.  My change is obviously
> highly specific to running this program, so there's obviously a 
> significant algorithm difference between Wine and Windows when it 
> comes to font selection of SYMBOL_CHARSET fonts.
>
> Now I can read the dialogs properly and the program runs pretty well
> (it even plays MIDI stuff properly after I installed the ALSA drivers
> from source - cool), but the score display is still only only showing 
> boxes instead of the note heads and other symbols that appear in that 
> font.  The font file does show various expected glyphs if I install it 
> in the xfs truetype directory and look at it using xfontsel, but I 
> don't know of any other Linux tools for analysing .ttf files.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I should do next to try and get the NWCV15
> font displaying properly?  This is obviously an unusual font but I'm
> not sure whether that's causing the problems or not.  Ideas?
>
> If anyone wants to have a look at the font file for themselves, free 
> evaluation copies of the software can be obtained from 
> http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/composer/download.htm
>
> - Andrew
>
> PS: Thanks to all the Wine developers for making this feat achievable, 
> it amazes me how well it all works!
>
>
>
>
The best that I can suggest for now is that you attach your 
hack^H^H^H^Hpatch and provide a link to your screen shot. It would not 
hurt to start a bug report for this either http://bugs.winehq.org

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Tony Lambregts