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annotate pango/description.txt @ rev 21382
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1 Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
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2 internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed.
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3 However, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+ widget toolkit as
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4 a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.0.
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6 Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four
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7 different font backends:
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8 * Core X windowing system fonts
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9 * Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
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10 * Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
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11 * Native fonts on Microsoft backends
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