[Haskell-cafe] Trouble installing and using Chart/cairo on windows 7

[Brent Yorgey]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 05:38:02PM -0800, briand at aracnet.com wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:58:37 -0500
> Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Good access to fonts and font metrics is the kicker.  Otherwise I'd
> > say to switch to using diagrams as a backend, hence getting a whole
> > bunch of actual backends for free.  I would love to see development of
> > some good Haskell font packages -- maybe it would even make a good
> > GSoC project?  Unfortunately I don't know enough about it to even know
> > what would be involved, or how much work it would be.
> > 
> 
> I assume that to use diagram the font package would have to be a vector font system, or could bit-mapped fonts be used ?

A vector font system would be ideal, as then you could go crazy
turning glyphs into paths and doing whatever the heck you want with
them using the diagrams framework.  However, bit-mapped fonts could be
used too (as long as there is a backend to support them), it would
just be less useful.

-Brent