Using pango without fontconfig

[Abu Ismail <abuismail25 yahoo com>]

Hi,

 I'm trying to use pango to provide persian text shaping for an application. The application uses the freetype library but uses its own way of accessing font files instead of fontconfig.  So I already have access to the string pathname to the ttf font file I want to use. I  looked at the low level functions in the pango manual but I can't figure out how to build a pangolayout without using fontconfig. Is this possible? If so, can somone guide me how to do this? 

Thank you

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