Re: Pango: listing fixed spaced families

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, 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.  More's the pity.  I have made a hacked-up version of gtkfontsel
that supports what you want and I use it in my own app.  It seems to
work fine on a variety of platforms, but it's too ugly to submit as a
patch to gtk.  It is accurate with regard to fixed vs proportional
fonts (the heuristic is to check for a text font, and if a font is a
text font, to do a trivial pango layout and see if 'i' and 'w' come
out the same width).  If you're interested, email me.

Allin Cottrell.