Re: Pango-1.7.0 released [unstable]

["Edward H. Trager" <ehtrager umich edu>]

Hi, Owen,

The inclusion of Lao and Syriac is great!

What about Khmer? I thought the KhmerOS people had said
that the Khmer rendering module would be merged into 
Pango 1.6, but I did not see it there.

Also what about Burmese? Is anyone working on Burmese via
OpenType, or does Burmese really require SIL's Graphite, and if
so is anybody seriously working on SIL integration into Pango?

Just curious. -Ed Trager

On Thursday 2004.12.02 16:37:45 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Pango-1.7.0 is now available for download at:
> 
>  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.5/
> 
> pango-1.7.0.tar.bz2   md5sum: 8659fc52457a86f57878c5018140744a
> pango-1.7.0.tar.gz    md5sum: c82e6099c49e24b28a30296e36757000
> 
> This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.8.0, which 
> will be released together with GTK+-2.8.
> 
> The major change in this release is PangoRenderer, a base object
> holding the logic for rendering PangoLayout which was previously
> duplicated in many places. Also in this release, support has
> been added for the Lao and Syriac scripts.
> 
> 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-1.6. If you have problems, you'll need
>    to reinstall Pango-1.6.0
> 
>  * 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 three different font backends:
> 
>  - 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-1.7 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 2.4.0 or newer of the GLib library; more 
> information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
> 
> Overview of changes between 1.6.x and 1.7.0
> ===========================================
> * Add PangoRenderer, a subclassable driver object holding the
>   logic for rendering PangoLayout.
> * Support transformed rendering for the Xft backend
> * Add Lao support in Thai Module [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
> * Support Thai OpenType fonts [Theppitak]
> * Add Syriac module [Emil Soleyman-Zomalan]
> * Add underline-color and strikethrough-color attributes
>   [Morten Welinder]
> * Add pango_win32_render_transformed() [Hans Breuer]
> * Misc fixes [Hans Breuer, Matthias Clasen, Manish Singh,
>    Morten Welinder]
> * Documentation improvements
> 
> Overview of stable-branch changes since 1.6.0
> =============================================
> * Fix several problem when computing font and selecting fonts
>   metrics for CJK [Felipe Heidrich, Federic Zhang]
> * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Kazuki Iwamoto, Ivan Wong]
> * Misc bug fixes [Paolo Borelli, Behdad Esfahbod, Leon Ho, Arun M,
>   Kjartan Maraas, Vincent Noel, Christian Persch, Enrico Scholz]
> 
> Owen Taylor
> 2 December 2004



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