pangoFontFamilyIsMonospace {RGtk2} | R Documentation

## 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`

### 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

### Value

[logical] `TRUE` if the family is monospace.

### Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

[Package RGtk2 version 2.20.40 Index]