How to tell whether a font is monospace using GTK and Pango?

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I have a PangoFontDescription and I want to know whether it describes a monospace font.

I have seen the function pango_font_family_is_monospace() in the Pango API documentation but after several hours of puzzling it is still not clear to me what the relationships are between PangoFontFamily, PangoFontMap, PangoFont, PangoFontset, PangoContext, and PangoFontDescription and whether I need any or all of these to achieve what I want. So far, PangoFontDescription is the only part of Pango I've needed to use, as GTK manages to abstract everything else away.

Can anyone who has done this before help me out?

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