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Hi @snelgar, ### My own (Julia) port of the ΔΣ library Just wanted to mention there is a Julia version of Richard's toolbox. I've got a good portion of it...

Sorry. I did not see that this had been raised already.

> pulling out the core types and functions to a different package. Indeed, at first thought: this seems like a good idea to me as well. Having said that: I...

@baggepinnen: > Communication with processes and lab equipment is another thing I think is outside the scope of this toolbox, but nice interfaces to eventual hardware packages would of course...

My mistake: Apparently this API is for "toy" examples only. Font availability is not guaranteed.

I looked a the provided examples in `Samples.md`, but do not see a good example of how one can successfully draw text across different platforms using a Unicode-capapable typeface. As...

Interesting... The Pango `set_font_face` interface seems to "honour" the 4 fonts that are supposedly supported by Cairo: `Sans, Serif, Fantasy, & Monospace`... Even in my Windows 7 installation. Even stranger:...

That's good. ... But `text()` appears to change the meaning of font size... which now make `Cairo.text_extents()` completely inaccurate. **Question** Are we supposed to use a different tool to get...

> well, just implement it. Fair enough. I will take a closer look at the code then. > The major problem (and more of a problem in Windows OS) is...

> I know it's not helpful, but i could reproduce your problem on a Win7. Well, it is good to know. That means it is probably not a setup issue...