Pango-1.3.5 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/ pango-1.3.5.tar.bz2 md5sum: cb94befb65b0ca11cca02fb0f8166679 pango-1.3.5.tar.gz md5sum: d993f60c159c98b93f32e35b4f0eac97 This is the last development release leading up to Pango-1.4.0 which is scheduled for release in one week on March 8. Testing, especially of the newly reworked OpenType code, is much appreciated. Two major improvements have been made since 1.3.3 (the 1.3.4 version number was skipped for consistency with GTK+ numbering.) * PangoLayout now autocomputes the bidirectional base direction with a set of patches from Dov Grobgeld. (Part of this work also shows up in GTK+-2.3.5.) This means that mixed right-to-left and left-to-right interfaces typically display correctly without further intervention. * The internal OpenType interfaces have been changed to make GPOS work much better, including Mark/Ligature attachmentsand cursive joins. GPOS is now enabled for Arabic text. The release also contains a couple of small API enhancements, including the much-requested wavy error underlines. (Patch from Nicolas Setton) Notes: * This is unstable development release. While it has had fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production. * Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of Pango-1.2. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall Pango-1.2.5. * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. 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 usage so far as been in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+ 2. 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 Xft2 library - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library - Native fonts on Microsoft platforms Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.2 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 2.2.0 or newer of the GLib library; more information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. Overview of changes between 1.3.3 and 1.3.5 =========================================== * Add support for automatically determining the base direction for PangoLayout from the contained text [Dov Grobgeld] * Major rework of internal opentype interfaces to fix problems with GPOS. Turn on GPOS handling for Arabic. * Add a PangoAttribute to turn off font fallback [Noah Levitt] * Add wavy error-indication underlines [Nicolas Setton] * Improve handling of BENGALI LETTER A/E [Sayamindu Dasgupta] * Win32 bug fixes and improvements [J. Ali Harlow, Hans Breuer] * Misc bug fixes [Noah, Roozbeh Pournader] Owen Taylor 1 March 2004 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
