Pango-1.14.10 released



Pango-1.14.10 is now available for download at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.14/
or
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.14

e9fc2f8168e74e2fa0aa8238ee0e9c06  pango-1.14.10.tar.bz2
2dbdd32c18dcea2fbccf3980c43f945d  pango-1.14.10.tar.gz

This is a follow-up stable release to fix various Indic shaper bugs and
to add a new Thai language engine using libthai, and is source and
binary compatible with 1.14.x.

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 1.14 depends on version 2.10.0 or newer of the GLib
library and version 1.2.2 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 1.14.9 and 1.14.10
==============================================
- Spell-checked docs.
- Fix various bugs that could cause ellipsization to stop prematurely.
- Fix rendering of background color being off in presence of rise attribute.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	* pango/pango-renderer.c (pango_renderer_draw_layout_line): Fix
	background rendering being off in presence of rise attributes.

	Bug 326099 – Setting width, indentation and ellipsizing doesn't work
		as I would expect
	Bug 319808 – Patch to let pango support artifical italic, bold and
		bold italic styles for the fonts which don't have these styles.
		Patch from James Su
	Red Hat Bug 211574: [hi/ml/si_LK] cursor naviation is wrong when
		using ZWJ (200d)
		Patch from LingNing Zhang
	Bug 394453 – Use -mms-bitfields (win32)
	Bug 392628 – Don't check for X on win32
	Bug 392789 – vpath build fails in basic module (win32)

Behdad Esfahbod
29 January 2007

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