Pango-1.18.0 is now available for download at:
http://
download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.18/
or
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.18
5a3cbda73be7277a20d97f2bc89b0737 pango-1.18.0.tar.bz2
97c261dd92b3fddc3d158d7caa90b897 pango-1.18.0.tar.gz
This is a stable release providing new functionality as
compared
to Pango-1.16, while maintaining source and binary
compatibility.
Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.16 include:
* Improved OpenType engine, choosing appropriate language
systems now.
* Support for the N'Ko minority language in the Arabic
shaper.
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, though most of the work on Pango so far has been
done in
the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core
of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.x.
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout
engine can
be used with different font backends. There are three basic
backends,
with multiple options for rendering with each.
- Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig
libraries.
Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or
directly
to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.
- Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for
complex-text handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo
or
directly using the native Win32 API.
- Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo.
The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org
)
provides a complete solution with high quality text
handling
and graphics rendering.
Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for
particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango 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/.
Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
Pango 1.18 depends on version 2.14.0 or newer of the GLib
library and version 1.2.6 or newer of the cairo library (if
the
cairo backend is desired); more information about GLib and
cairo
can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ and http://cairographics.org/
respectively.
Overview of changes between 1.17.5 and 1.18.0
==============================================
- Make pango_script_for_unichar() just call
g_unichar_get_script(),
and document that PangoScript and GUnicodeScript are
interchangeable
enumerations.
- Misc bug fixes
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 348348 – Add a way to get the script name of a
gunichar
Bug 451682 – Cursor positioning for Sinhala is
broken
Based on patch from Harshula
Bug 462137 – memory corruption in
pango_default_break
Bug 462420 – Clicking on pixbuf should move the
cursor to the position
nearest to the click point
Bug 462630 –
pango_cairo_context_set_font_options() and some others
don't have a Since: tag
Bug 464183 – Minimum tab width enforcement in
pango-layout breaks
TabArray positions
Patch by David Trowbridge
Bug 464270 – ellipsize doesn't work consistent
Bug 465174 – TextView is ignoring multiple
consecutive t's
Bug 466755 – pango hangul is crashing in
gnome-about because it is
failing to retrieve a font.
Bug 467056 – Shape attribute handling is not
consistent
Bug 467077 – Remove special-case for shape
attribute in
pango_layout_line_index_to_x()
20 August 2007
Behdad Esfahbod
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