high-level text drawing

[Johannes =?utf-8?B?V2Vpw59s?= <johannes weissl gmx de>]

Hello,

I want to draw some text on a GdkDrawable (default font, small size),
but the function gdk_draw_text() is "deprecated and should not be used
in newly-written code".

I know, that pango handles text now, but the API seems to be very
low-level. I've also searched with google and the mailing list archive,
but I found nothing useful.

How do I draw text as high-level as possible in GTK2?

(sorry for my bad English)

-- 
cu,
Johannes Weißl