Pango1.54

Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasison internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layoutis needed, though most usage so far as been in the context of theGTK+ 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 usedwith four different font backends:Core X windowing system fonts,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 particularcombinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.2 ships with a wideselection 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 includesPangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.