Re: Pango: listing fixed spaced families

[Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>]

Around 14 o'clock on Feb 11, Robert Roebling wrote:

> is there a way in the Pango API (I haven't seen any after looking at every
> header file) that makes it possible to get a list of all font families
> which have a fixed width? 

No.  Scalable fonts don't accurately report this feature, so there's no 
way to reliably detect it, hence no way to list it.

Hmm.  I may add a field which marks fonts that have fixed width ascii 
sets.  That's really easy.

-keith