* Handle older TrueType Open Arabic fonts.
* Fix crash with some non-BMP characters [Morten Welinder]
* Avoid crashing on font descriptions like " 12" [Padraig O'Briain]
* Minor build fixes [Rich Burridge, Sven Neumann]
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.
Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5
* Win32 work [Tor Lillqvist]
- Handle choosing the right font for CJK languages based on language tags.
- Fix boxes showing up for tabs [Florent Duguet]
- Better handling of finding ASCII font names.
- Cygwin compilation fix [Masahiro Sakai]
- Fix --with-included-modules on win32 [Arnaud Charlet]
- Various build fixes and cleanups
- Make mini-xft find windows font directory automatically
* Bug fix for pango_scan_int() needed for recent GTK+.
* Improve language specific charset ordering basic-x11 [James Su, Brian Yuan]
* Fix symbols that shouldn't have been exported [Jacob Berkman, Nils Nordman]
* Some cross-compiling fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
* Various build fixes [Havoc Pennington, others]
* Fix check for no-backend being found. [Andreas J. Guezlow]
are:
* Add Thai shaper for Xft [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
* Support GB-18030, BIG5-HKSCS, CNS-11643, GBK encodings for
basic-x shaper [Qingjiang (Brian) Yuan]
* Support ksc5601.1992-3 fonts in hangul-x shpaer
[Qingjiang (Brian) Yuan, Changwoo Ryu]
* Support new Arabic characters in Unicode 3.2 [Roozbeh Pournader]
* Bug fixes [Jacob Berkman, Arnaud Charlet, David L. Cooper II,
Choe Hwangjin, Alex Larsson, Sven Neumann, Matthias Warkus, Yao Zhang]
enhancements. Too many to list here - please see ChangeLog and/or
http://www.pango.org.
Patches to update the package were supplied by Julio Merino
(jmmv at hispabsd dot org) in pkg/17419 - muchas gracias!
(This closes pkg/17419.)
Changes in version 1.0.1
========================
* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
* Use new API in FreeType 2.0.9 to greatly speed up coverage
calculation for Xft and FT2 backends.
* Some fixes for reading of OpenType tables.
* Add -D_REENTRANT to compilation when necessary. [Sven Neumann]
* Try and enable ClearType for Win32 backend. [Tor Lillqvist]
* Fixes for Korean glyphs in the basic-x shaper [Changwoo Ryu]
* Improvements for computation of average char/digit width [Sven Neumann]
* Bug and error reporting fixes
[Arnaud Charlet, Erewan Chenede, Mikael Hallendal, Stefan Israelsson,
Alex Larsson, Soeren Sandmann, Dan Winship]
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.
