Re: How to start using Pango?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:50 +0100, J�Herz wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > There are two ways to use pango, both need the following before anything
> > can be rendered:
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Thank you (and Dov) for that explanation. Downloading the pango sources
> and finding three examples there also helped.
> 
> It nevertheless took me quite some time to find out how to convert from
> one object to another to be able to call a desired function. E.g. to
> call pango_ot_info_list_scripts() you've to have PangoOTInfo and in
> order to get that you need a FT_Face. To get this you need a PangoFont
> for which you need three other objects which have to be created somehow.
> That's a long way babe.

Well, you *are* way off into the deep internals of Pango there... most
Pango users never will get beyond PangoLayout.

					- Owen