[release-notes/gnome-3-6] Add that Pango uses harfbuzz



commit 0deecaf4e176e7919ca424faec5d8e9fde7d1f05
Author: Andre Klapper <a9016009 gmx de>
Date:   Mon Sep 17 10:50:00 2012 +0200

    Add that Pango uses harfbuzz

 help/C/developers-misc.page |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/developers-misc.page b/help/C/developers-misc.page
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--- a/help/C/developers-misc.page
+++ b/help/C/developers-misc.page
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 
   <p>Other GNOME Platform improvements in GNOME &gnomeversion; include:</p>
   <list>
+  <item><p>
+ <sys>Pango</sys>, the library for laying out and rendering of text, has been ported to use <link href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz";><sys>Harfbuzz</sys></link> to provide higher quality rendering and memory savings. As a side effect the deprecated <sys>pangox</sys> backend was removed. A <link href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pangox-compat/0.0/";>tarball of a standalone pangox</link> helps with the transition of the deprecated pangox APIs.
+  </p></item>
 <!-- http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2012/06/zeitgeist-in-gnome/ -->
   <item><p>
 The <link href="http://zeitgeist-project.com/";><sys>Zeitgeist</sys></link> activity logging framework is used in <app>Empathy</app> and by <sys>folks</sys>.



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