#:in-original-place? should do the trick, as it's what the pango bindings do as well:
https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/racket/draw/unsafe/pango.rkt#L121-L128 You probably don't need #:atomic?. #:atomic? has to do with callbacks from foreign code back into Racket. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users