RGtk2 (version 2.20.31)

pangoFontFamilyIsMonospace: pangoFontFamilyIsMonospace

Description

A monospace font is a font designed for text display where the the characters form a regular grid. For Western languages this would mean that the advance width of all characters are the same, but this categorization also includes Asian fonts which include double-width characters: characters that occupy two grid cells. gUnicharIswide() returns a result that indicates whether a character is typically double-width in a monospace font.

Usage

pangoFontFamilyIsMonospace(object)

Arguments

object

[PangoFontFamily] a PangoFontFamily

Value

TRUE if the family is monospace.

Details

The best way to find out the grid-cell size is to call pangoFontMetricsGetApproximateDigitWidth, since the results of pangoFontMetricsGetApproximateCharWidth may be affected by double-width characters. Since 1.4