struct PangoContext

struct PangoContext
{
  GObject parent_instance;

  PangoLanguage *language;
  PangoDirection base_dir;
  PangoFontDescription *font_desc;

  PangoFontMap *font_map;
};

The PangoContext structure stores global information used to control the itemization process. It contains the following fields:

struct PangoItem

struct PangoItem
{
  gint offset;
  gint length;
  gint num_chars;
  PangoAnalysis analysis;
};

The PangoItem structure stores information about a segment of text. It contains the following fields:

struct PangoAnalysis

struct PangoAnalysis
{
  PangoEngineShape *shape_engine;
  PangoEngineLang  *lang_engine;
  PangoFont *font;
  guint8 level;
  PangoLanguage *language;
  GSList *extra_attrs;
};

The PangoAnalysis structure stores information about the properties of a segment of text. It has the following fields:

enum PangoDirection

typedef enum {
  PANGO_DIRECTION_LTR,
  PANGO_DIRECTION_RTL,
  PANGO_DIRECTION_TTB_LTR,
  PANGO_DIRECTION_TTB_RTL
} PangoDirection;

The PangoDirection type represents the direction of writing for text.

PANGO_TYPE_DIRECTION

#define PANGO_TYPE_DIRECTION (pango_direction_get_type())

The GObject type for PangoDirection.

pango_itemize ()

GList*      pango_itemize                   (PangoContext *context,
                                             const char *text,
                                             int start_index,
                                             int length,
                                             PangoAttrList *attrs,
                                             PangoAttrIterator *cached_iter);

Breaks a piece of text into segments with consistent directional level and shaping engine. Each byte of text will be contained in exactly one of the items in the returned list; the generated list of items will be in logical order (the start offsets of the items are ascending).

cached_iter should be an iterator over attrs currently positioned at a range before or containing start_index; cached_iter will be advanced to the range covering the position just after start_index + length. (i.e. if itemizing in a loop, just keep passing in the same cached_iter).

pango_item_free ()

void        pango_item_free                 (PangoItem *item);

Free a PangoItem and all associated memory.

pango_item_copy ()

PangoItem*  pango_item_copy                 (PangoItem *item);

Copy an existing PangoItem structure.

pango_item_new ()

PangoItem*  pango_item_new                  (void);

Creates a new PangoItem structure initialized to default values.

pango_item_split ()

PangoItem*  pango_item_split                (PangoItem *orig,
                                             int split_index,
                                             int split_offset);

Modifies orig to cover only the text after split_index, and returns a new item that covers the text before split_index that used to be in orig. You can think of split_index as the length of the returned item. split_index may not be 0, and it may not be greater than or equal to the length of orig (that is, there must be at least one byte assigned to each item, you can't create a zero-length item). split_offset is the length of the first item in chars, and must be provided because the text used to generate the item isn't available, so pango_item_split() can't count the char length of the split items itself.

pango_reorder_items ()

GList*      pango_reorder_items             (GList *logical_items);

From a list of items in logical order and the associated directional levels, produce a list in visual order. The original list is unmodified.

pango_context_new ()

PangoContext* pango_context_new             (void);

Creates a new PangoContext initialized to default value.

pango_context_set_font_map ()

void        pango_context_set_font_map      (PangoContext *context,
                                             PangoFontMap *font_map);

Sets the font map to be searched when fonts are looked-up in this context.

pango_context_get_font_description ()

PangoFontDescription* pango_context_get_font_description
                                            (PangoContext *context);

Retrieve the default font description for the context.

pango_context_set_font_description ()

void        pango_context_set_font_description
                                            (PangoContext *context,
                                             const PangoFontDescription *desc);

Set the default font description for the context

pango_context_get_language ()

PangoLanguage* pango_context_get_language   (PangoContext *context);

Retrieves the global language tag for the context.

pango_context_set_language ()

void        pango_context_set_language      (PangoContext *context,
                                             PangoLanguage *language);

Sets the global language tag for the context.

pango_context_get_base_dir ()

PangoDirection pango_context_get_base_dir   (PangoContext *context);

Retrieves the base direction for the context.

pango_context_set_base_dir ()

void        pango_context_set_base_dir      (PangoContext *context,
                                             PangoDirection direction);

Sets the base direction for the context.

pango_context_load_font ()

PangoFont*  pango_context_load_font         (PangoContext *context,
                                             const PangoFontDescription *desc);

Loads the font in one of the fontmaps in the context that is the closest match for desc.

pango_context_load_fontset ()

PangoFontset* pango_context_load_fontset    (PangoContext *context,
                                             const PangoFontDescription *desc,
                                             PangoLanguage *language);

Load a set of fonts in the context that can be used to render a font matching desc.

pango_context_get_metrics ()

PangoFontMetrics* pango_context_get_metrics (PangoContext *context,
                                             const PangoFontDescription *desc,
                                             PangoLanguage *language);

Get overall metric information for a font particular font description. 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.

The PangoFontDescription is interpreted in the same way as by pango_itemize(), and the family name may be a comma separated list of figures. If characters from multiple of these families would be used to render the string, then the returned fonts would be a composite of the metrics for the fonts loaded for the individual families.

pango_context_list_families ()

void        pango_context_list_families     (PangoContext *context,
                                             PangoFontFamily ***families,
                                             int *n_families);

List all families for a context.

pango_break ()

void        pango_break                     (const gchar *text,
                                             int length,
                                             PangoAnalysis *analysis,
                                             PangoLogAttr *attrs,
                                             int attrs_len);

Determines possible line, word, and character breaks for a string of Unicode text.

pango_get_log_attrs ()

void        pango_get_log_attrs             (const char *text,
                                             int length,
                                             int level,
                                             PangoLanguage *language,
                                             PangoLogAttr *log_attrs,
                                             int attrs_len);

Computes a PangoLogAttr for each character in text. The log_attrs array must have one PangoLogAttr for each position in text; if text contains N characters, it has N+1 positions, including the last position at the end of the text. text should be an entire paragraph; logical attributes can't be computed without context (for example you need to see spaces on either side of a word to know the word is a word).

pango_find_paragraph_boundary ()

void        pango_find_paragraph_boundary   (const gchar *text,
                                             gint length,
                                             gint *paragraph_delimiter_index,
                                             gint *next_paragraph_start);

Locates a paragraph boundary in text. A boundary is caused by delimiter characters, such as a newline, carriage return, carriage return-newline pair, or Unicode paragraph separator character. The index of the run of delimiters is returned in paragraph_delimiter_index. The index of the start of the paragraph (index after all delimiters) is stored in next_paragraph_start.

If no delimiters are found, both paragraph_delimiter_index and next_paragraph_start are filled with the length of text (an index one off the end).

pango_default_break ()

void        pango_default_break             (const gchar *text,
                                             int length,
                                             PangoAnalysis *analysis,
                                             PangoLogAttr *attrs,
                                             int attrs_len);

This is the default break algorithm, used if no language engine overrides it. Normally you should use pango_break() instead; this function is mostly useful for chaining up from a language engine override. Unlike pango_break(), analysis can be NULL, but only do that if you know what you're doing. (If you need an analysis to pass to pango_break(), you need to pango_itemize() or use pango_get_log_attrs().)

struct PangoLogAttr

struct PangoLogAttr
{
  guint is_line_break : 1;      /* Can break line in front of character */

  guint is_mandatory_break : 1; /* Must break line in front of character */

  guint is_char_break : 1;      /* Can break here when doing char wrap */
  
  guint is_white : 1;           /* Whitespace character */

  /* cursor can appear in front of character (i.e. this is a grapheme
   * boundary, or the first character in the text)
   */
  guint is_cursor_position : 1;
  
  /* Note that in degenerate cases, you could have both start/end set on
   * some text, most likely for sentences (e.g. no space after a period, so
   * the next sentence starts right away)
   */
  
  guint is_word_start : 1;      /* first character in a word */
  guint is_word_end   : 1;      /* is first non-word char after a word */

  /* There are two ways to divide sentences. The first assigns all
   * intersentence whitespace/control/format chars to some sentence,
   * so all chars are in some sentence; is_sentence_boundary denotes
   * the boundaries there. The second way doesn't assign
   * between-sentence spaces, etc. to any sentence, so
   * is_sentence_start/is_sentence_end mark the boundaries of those
   * sentences.
   */
  guint is_sentence_boundary : 1;
  guint is_sentence_start : 1;  /* first character in a sentence */
  guint is_sentence_end : 1;    /* first non-sentence char after a sentence */
};

The PangoLogAttr structure stores information about the attributes of a single character.

pango_shape ()

void        pango_shape                     (const gchar *text,
                                             gint length,
                                             PangoAnalysis *analysis,
                                             PangoGlyphString *glyphs);

Given a segment of text and the corresponding PangoAnalysis structure returned from pango_itemize(), convert the characters into glyphs. You may also pass in only a substring of the item from pango_itemize().