GlyphItemIter

A PangoGlyphItemIter is an iterator over the clusters in a PangoGlyphItem.

The forward direction of the iterator is the logical direction of text. That is, with increasing @start_index and @start_char values. If @glyph_item is right-to-left (that is, if glyph_item->item->analysis.level is odd), then @start_glyph decreases as the iterator moves forward. Moreover, in right-to-left cases, @start_glyph is greater than @end_glyph.

An iterator should be initialized using either pango_glyph_item_iter_init_start() or pango_glyph_item_iter_init_end(), for forward and backward iteration respectively, and walked over using any desired mixture of pango_glyph_item_iter_next_cluster() and pango_glyph_item_iter_prev_cluster().

A common idiom for doing a forward iteration over the clusters is:

PangoGlyphItemIter cluster_iter;
gboolean have_cluster;

for (have_cluster = pango_glyph_item_iter_init_start (&cluster_iter,
                                                      glyph_item, text);
     have_cluster;
     have_cluster = pango_glyph_item_iter_next_cluster (&cluster_iter))
{
  ...
}

Note that @text is the start of the text for layout, which is then indexed by glyph_item->item->offset to get to the text of @glyph_item. The @start_index and @end_index values can directly index into @text. The