Re: How to get PangoFontFamily?

[Enrico TrÃger <enrico troeger uvena de>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:31:21 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 18:51 +0100, Enrico TrÃger wrote: 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a PangoFontDescription, created from a font string. Now I
> > would like to use pango_font_family_is_monospace() to know whether
> > it is a monospaced font or not. But I don't find a way to get a
> > PangoFontFamily object at all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> A PangoFontDescription is just that: a description.  It doesn't
> identify any specific font on your system just yet.  You need a
> PangoFont first.
>
> Unfortunately the current Pango API is lacking any way to connect a
> PangoFont to a PangoFontFamily.  So, right now, you can't do that.
> I've opened a but about it:
>
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496545
Thanks.

Regards,
Enrico

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