Any simple text rendering

[Frank Hrebabetzky <hreba terra com br>]

I am working on a Program which draws diagrams on a drawing area and 
therefore I need to draw some simple text such as 'y-Axis' or '0.00', 
'1.00' and so on, nothing fancy, no chinese or arab, just plain english 
monospaced text. Now how should I do that ?

Label widgets? I didn't see how to get ascent and descent which I need 
to place the text correctly. Besides that, I need to allocate each 
label, but as the number of axis numbers depends on the size of the 
drawing area (grid spacing), this must be done anew after each resizing 
and labels would accumulate contiuously.

Pango? No idea where to start reading. Seems a huge engine. Use this 
just to display a few characters?

So what would you guys do?
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Frank Hrebabetzky               +55 / 48 / 235 1106
Florianopolis, Brazil