Pango-1.1.3 development release

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Pango-1.1.3 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.1/

This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.2; no further
API additions are anticipated before Pango-1.2, but there is no
guarantee of stability at this point. This package is ABI and API
compatible with the public API in Pango-1.0.x.

The major change since Pango-1.1.2 is support for Uniscribe in
the Win32 backend; there are also substantial improvements to
the Hangul shapers.


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; 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. Pango-1.0.0 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 2.0.0 of the GLib library; more information
about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.


Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3
===============================

* Hangul module bug fixes and improvements [Changwoo Ryu, Jungshik Shin]
  - Move rendering of precomposed characters to hangul-xft shaper
  - Handle Hangul tone marks
* Win32 improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
  - Use Uniscribe when present
* Some doc build fixes [Matthias Clasen]
* Code cleanup [Manish Singh]
* Fix assertion failure in PangoLayout [Alex Larsson]
* Fix memory leak when freeing fontmaps [Sven Neumann]

Owen Taylor
2 November 2002