* Add Khmer support [Jens Herden, Javier Sola]
* Fix bugs and crashes in the operation of PangoLayoutIter [Amit Aronovitch]
* Increase sharing of data between different copies of Pango
[Tommi Komulainen, Ross Burton]
* Remove dependence of opentype code on FreeType internals [David Turner,
Behdad Esfahbod]
* Cache metrics for the Win32 backend [Tor Lillqvist]
* Improve handling of RTL text when passing it to Uniscribe [Tor]
* Support for TrueType fonts on Win32 with characters outside the BMP [Tor]
* Handle alpha in XftColors again. [Mikael Magnusson]
* Better handling of MacThai encoded fonts [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
* Handle zero width chars properly in Hangul backend
[Young-Ho Cha, Changwoo Ryu]
* Fix Oriya character classification [Gora Mohanty, Gautam Sengupta]
* PangoAttrIterator bug fixes [Morten Welinder]
* Clean up copyright/licensing information [William N. Ray]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Sebastien Bacher, Brandon Bergren,
Chris Blizzard, Paolo Borelli, Behdad, Harshula, Alex Jones, Aivars Kalvans,
Stepan Kasal, Karel Kulhavy, Ryan Lortie, Ben Maurer, Sukhjinder Sidhu,
Manish Singh, Emil Soleyman-Zomalan, Morten]
pOverview of changes between 1.8.0 and 1.8.1
===========================================
* Fix several problems with conjuct formation in Sinhala [Harshula]
* Fix problems that were causing fonts to be missized and
not print in GtkHTML [Ross Burton]
* Fix compilation with old fontconfig [Vincent Noel] and
old FreeType [Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr]
* Work around problem with glyphs in monospace fonts being truncated
by Xft [Billy Biggs]
* Misc bug fixes [Damon Chaplin, Matthias Clasen, Kees Cook, Nick Lamb,
Adam Sampson,Manish Singh, Morten Welinder]
* Misc build fixes [Sebastien Bacher, Matthias Clasen, Tor Lillquist]
* Doc improvements [Torsten Schoenfeld, Billy Biggs, Morten Welinder]
Changes in the package
======================
* Install compatibility symlinks for shared libraries to not break binary
programs linked against 1.4.0. This is just a workaround for our broken
libtool naming scheme and should be removed when it is fixed. Agreed
by rh@.
* Move installation of documentation to doc/, out of doc/html.
Overview of changes between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1
===========================================
* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, John Ehresman]
* Thai rendering improvements including OpenType support
[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
* Fix common crash in Hangul shaper [Changwoo Ryu]
* Fix various problems with language tag selection [Frederic Zhang]
* Documentation improvements [Felipe Heidrich, Doug Quale]
* Fix crash in line break code [Jeroen Zwartepoorte, Billy Biggs]
* Build fixes [J. Ali Harlow, Noah Misch]
* OpenType engine fixes [Kailash C. Chowksey, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Aamir Wali,
Masatake YAMATO, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh]
* Indic module bug fixes [Chris Blizzard, Rajkumar S, Taneem Ahmed,
Jungshik Shin]
* Misc bug fixes [Stanislav Brabec, Anders Carlsson, Behdad Esfahbod,
Jody Goldberg, Theppitak, Sven Neumann, Manish Singh, Morten Welinder]
installs are something like databases that need to be handled automatically
by the package system during installation of modules, not by the end user.
Bump PKGREVISION to 1. (As a side effect, the package gets simplified a lot).
There are no packages in pkgsrc installing pango modules at the moment.
When they come, we can easily add a framework to handle them, as has been
done for x11/gtk2.
Changes:
* Improve font solection for Hangul tone marks
* Improve range definitions for basic-xft [Jungshik Shin]
* Draw unknown character boxes with X primitives for the
X backend instead of hoping for a suitable glyph [Morten Welinder]
* For Xft/FT2, give an informative error mesage when no fonts are found.
* Support shape modules with ranges beyond the BMP [Federic Zhang]
* Use octal escapes rather than literal UTF-8 [Arnaud Charlet]
* Use g_[sf]printf where appropriate [Matthias Clasen]
* Fix the Arabic-words-broken-by-underlines problem by
stripping out non-shape affecting attributes then adding them
back after shaping.
* Hangul shaper fixes [Changwoo Ryu, Jungshik Shin]
* Handle compatability ideographs in basic-x shaper [Federic Zhang]
* Implement pango_ft2_font_map_set_default_substitute() [Matthias Clasen]
* Hangul module bug fixes and improvements [Changwoo Ryu, Jungshik Shin]
- Move rendering of precomposed characters to hangul-xft shaper
- Handle Hangul tone marks
* Add a new wrap mode for PangoLayout - PANGO_WRAP_WORD_CHAR [Alex Larsson]
* Indic module improvements [Eric Mader]
* Fixes to generic OpenType handling [Eric]
* Improve language specific charset ordering basic-x11 [James Su, Brian Yuan]
* Some merges of fixes by Werner Lemberg to the original
FreeType OpenType code.
* Robustify and otherwise improve pango_color_parse() [Matthias Clasen]
* Some cross-compiling fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
* 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.
* 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]
* Various cleanups to the PangoXft and PangoFT2 public APIs.
... as well as the usual bug fixes.
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.
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.
