Pango-1.1.2 development release

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Pango-1.1.2 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-1.1.1 is improvements to the Win32
backend by Tor Lillqvist (also in the Pango-1.0.5 release). There
is also a new wrap mode for PangoLayout done by Alex Larsson
and various bug fixes and improvements.


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 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
===============================

* Add a new wrap mode for PangoLayout - PANGO_WRAP_WORD_CHAR [Alex Larsson]
* Win32 work [Tor Lillqvist]
  - Handle choosing the right font for CJK languages based on language tags. 
  - Fix boxes showing up for tabs [Florent Duguet]
  - Better handling of finding ASCII font names.
  - Cygwin compilation fix [Masahiro Sakai]
  - Fix --with-included-modules on win32 [Arnaud Charlet]
  - Various build fixes and cleanups
* Indic module improvements [Eric Mader]
* Fixes to generic OpenType handling [Eric]
* Improve language specific charset ordering basic-x11 [James Su, Brian Yuan]
* Some merges of fixes by Werner Lemberg to the original 
  FreeType OpenType code.
* Robustify and otherwise improve pango_color_parse() [Matthias Clasen]
* Some cross-compiling fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
* Bug fix for pango_scan_int() needed for recent GTK+.

Owen Taylor
13 October 2002