Pango-1.1.3 development release
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: gnome-announce-list gnome org, gtk-devel-list gnome org, gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Pango-1.1.3 development release
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 14:27:08 -0500 (EST)
Pango-1.1.3 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.1/
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.
The major change since Pango-1.1.2 is support for Uniscribe in
the Win32 backend; there are also substantial improvements to
the Hangul shapers.
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 1.1.2 and 1.1.3
===============================
* Hangul module bug fixes and improvements [Changwoo Ryu, Jungshik Shin]
- Move rendering of precomposed characters to hangul-xft shaper
- Handle Hangul tone marks
* Win32 improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
- Use Uniscribe when present
* Some doc build fixes [Matthias Clasen]
* Code cleanup [Manish Singh]
* Fix assertion failure in PangoLayout [Alex Larsson]
* Fix memory leak when freeing fontmaps [Sven Neumann]
Owen Taylor
2 November 2002
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