Drawing Text
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## Drawing Text

### Drawing Text with Pango

Text is drawn via Pango Layouts. The easiest way to create a `Pango::Layout` is to use `create_pango_layout`. Once created, the layout can be manipulated in various ways, including changing the text, font, etc. Finally, the layout can be rendered using the `draw_layout` method of `Gdk::Drawable`, which takes a `Gdk::GC` object, an x-position, a y-position and the layout itself.

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