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RGtk2 (version 2.20.31)

pangoFontGetMetrics: pangoFontGetMetrics

Description

Gets overall metric information for a font. Since the metrics may be substantially different for different scripts, a language tag can be provided to indicate that the metrics should be retrieved that correspond to the script(s) used by that language.

Usage

pangoFontGetMetrics(object, language = NULL)

Arguments

language
[PangoLanguage] language tag used to determine which script to get the metrics for, or NULL to indicate to get the metrics for the entire font.

Value

PangoFontMetrics] a PangoFontMetrics object.

Details

If font is NULL, this function gracefully sets some sane values in the output variables and returns.