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Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
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on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
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is needed; however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the
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GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text
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and font handling for GTK+-2.0.
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Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
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with four different font backends:
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- Core X windowing system fonts
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- Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
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- Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
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- Native fonts on Microsoft backends
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Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
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combinations of script and font backend.
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As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
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PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
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and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.
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