Pango - Introduction
    
    
              
	   
        
    
  
  
    
      
	
	  
	    
	  
	
	
	  	  
	    




Introduction





Design



  
     Font Selection
  


  
     X Fonts
  


  
     Text Attributes
  


  
     Layout
  





API





Download





Gallery





Resources



  
     Input
  


  
     Fonts
  

  





  
     Introduction  

    
      The goal of the Pango project  is to provide
      an open-source framework for the layout and rendering of
      internationalized text. Pango is an offshoot of the GTK+ and GNOME
      projects, and the initial focus is operation in those environments,
      however there is nothing fundamentally GTK+ or GNOME specific about
      Pango. Pango uses Unicode for all of its encoding, and will eventually
      support output in all the worlds major languages.
    
    
      The name is:
    

Greek "Pan" / U03A0 U03B1 U03BD / All
                     +
Japanese "Go" / U8A9E / Language

    
      So, properly written, it looks like: 
      (image rendered by Pango).
    

     Status 
    
    
      Pango-1.0.0 has been released and is available for
      download from ftp.gtk.org.
      The emphasis of this release is the
      features needed in a widget toolkit like GTK+. We expect
      future work to center on adding support for more
      typographically advanced features, such as shaped paragraphs
      and vertical text.
    
    
     Old status reports 
    
    
       Status Report #8 (11 Nov  2000)
       Status Report #7 (31 May 2000)
       Status Report #6 (25 Apr 2000)
       Status Report #5 (4 Apr 2000)
       Status Report #4 (10 Mar 2000)
       Status Report #3 (16 Feb 2000)
       Status Report #2 (9 Feb 2000)
       Status Report #1 (14 Jan 2000)
       TODO list 
    

	
        
          
          
      
       Last modified 08-Mar-2002

      Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>