Pango-1.1.1 development release

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Pango-1.1.1 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/

This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.2; no further
API additions are anticipated before Pango-1.2, but there is no
guarantee of stability at this point. This package is ABI and API
compatible with the public API in Pango-1.0.x.

Major changes as compared to Pango 1.0 are:

 - The Xft and FT2 backends are now based on the fontconfig
   library, available from http://keithp.com/fonts/.
   This provides considerably improved font matching
   capabilities and performance enhancements.

 - The Xft backend now requires version 2 of Xft, also
   available from http://keithp.com/fonts/. One of the
   benefits of Xft2 is the ability to render antialiased
   fonts without the RENDER extension.

 - A Hangul shaper for Xft by Changwoo Ryu
 
 - A shaper for Indic OpenType fonts based on code from
   ICU, done by Eric Mader.

[ What happened to 1.1.1? I just never got around to
  releasing it ]


About Pango
===========

Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed; however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the
GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.0.

Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
with four different font backends:

 - Core X windowing system fonts
 - Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
 - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
 - Native fonts on Microsoft backends

Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.0.0 ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul, 
Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the world's major 
scripts are supported.

As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.

More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.

Pango depends on version 2.0.0 of the GLib library; more information
about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.


Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1
===============================

* Merge a lot of the code between the Xft and FT2 backend,
  so that the FT2 backend gets the recent improvements to Xft.
* Add proper language tag support to the Xft/FT2 backends.
* Various effienciency fixes for the Xft/FT2 backends.

Changes between 1.0.x and 1.1.0
===============================

* Support for version 2 of the Xft library. [Keith Packard]
* Convert the freetype backend over to using fontconfig,
  instead of MiniXft for font cataloging.
* A port of the Indic OpenType code from ICU to Pango. [Eric Mader]
* A new hangul-xft [Changwoo Ryu]
* Bug-fixes to the OpenType handling code.
* Various cleanups to the PangoXft and PangoFT2 public APIs.
* Docs switched over to DocBook XML. [Matthias Clasen]

Owen Taylor
20 August 2002