Re: How to start using Pango?

["Dov Grobgeld" <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

Don't forget PangoMarkup:

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/PangoMarkupFormat.html

which provides a convenient shortcut for creating rich text layout with pango.

There are several examples of using pango without gtk in the pango
examples directory. A larger example is my paps program:
http://paps.sourceforge.net/ .

Regards,
Dov

On 3/4/07, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 21:30 +0100, Jürgen Herz wrote:
>
> > I'd appreciate some pointers or a short howto.
>
> There are two ways to use pango, both need the following before anything
> can be rendered:
>
>   - A PangoFontMap.  This largely depends on the rendering technology
> you want to use.  I highly recommend cairo.  In that case,
> pango_cairo_font_map_get_default() gives you all you need.
>
>   - A PangoContext.  You can create one in a fontmap-specific way.  For
> PangoCairo, pango_cairo_font_map_create_context() does that.  Note that
> with higher level code integrated with Pango, you typically just get the
> context directly from higher level (gtk_widget_create_pango_context for
> example).
>
> With the PangoContext at hand, you have two choices to use Pango:
>
>   - Use the PangoLayout object.  High-level, easy to use.  You don't
> deal with PangoFonts directly.  Create a layout using pango_layout_new()
> and set text and font-description on it.  Note that PangoCairo can
> create one for you directly using pango_cairo_create_layout(), so does
> Gtk+ using gtk_widget_create_layout().  Render a layout using
> pango_cairo_show_layout().
>
>   - Your other option, and that used by PangoLayout internally is to use
> pango_itemize(), followed by pango_shape() on each resulting item, and
> render the resulting glyphstrings using pango_cairo_show_glyph_string().
>
>
> --
> behdad
> http://behdad.org/
>
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