Pango

Pango (stylized as ) is a text (i.e. glyph) layout engine library which works with the HarfBuzz shaping engine for displaying multi-language text. Full-function rendering of text and cross-platform support is achieved when Pango is used with platform APIs or third-party libraries, such as Uniscribe and FreeType, as text rendering backends. Pango-processed text will appear similar under different operating systems. Pango is a special-purpose library for text and not a general-purpose graphics rendering library such as Cairo, with which Pango can be used. The Cairo documentation recommends Pango be used to "render" text rather than Cairo for all but the simplest text "rendering".

Pango (stylized as ) is a text (i.e. glyph) layout engine library which works with the HarfBuzz shaping engine for displaying multi-language text. Full-function rendering of text and cross-platform support is achieved when Pango is used with platform APIs or third-party libraries, such as Uniscribe and FreeType, as text rendering backends. Pango-processed text will appear similar under different operating systems. Pango is a special-purpose library for text and not a general-purpose graphics rendering library such as Cairo, with which Pango can be used. The Cairo documentation recommends Pango be used to "render" text rather than Cairo for all but the simplest text "rendering". ==Support for OpenType features== Pango 1.17 and newer support the ' ' feature tag that allows localized glyphs to be used for the same Unicode code point. Assuming you have Verdana version 5.01 installed, which supports the 'locl' feature for the latn/ROM (Romanian) script, a quick demonstration (on Linux) is: for lang in en ro do pango-view \ --font="Verdana 64" \ --text "şţ vs. șț in $lang" \ --language=$lang done For an explanation of the substitutions rules for Romanian, see this discussion. Setting the locale via the POSIX environment variable, e.g. LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8 will also cause Pango to use 'locl' font feature. Finally, you can change the language on the fly in the same text using Pango markup, e.g.: pango-view \ --font="Verdana 24" \ --markup \ --text 'In the same text: şţ(en) and şţ(ro). ' Since 1.37.1, Pango added more attributes to provide complete support for processing OpenType feature. ==Major users== . Pango, GDK, ATK, GIO, Cairo and GLib. Pango has been integrated into most Linux distributions. The GTK UI toolkit uses Pango for all of its text rendering. The Linux versions of the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird mail client use Pango for text rendering. ==See also== HarfBuzz (text shaping engine which is incorporated into Pango itself but can be also used stand-alone) Core Text (modern multilingual text rendering engine introduced in Mac OS X 10.5) Graphite (multiplatform open source smart-font renderer) WorldScript (Old Macintosh multilingual text rendering engine) Typographic ligature Computer font ==References== ==External links== Pango, an open-source Unicode text layout engine. by Owen Taylor in Twenty fifth Internationalization and unicode conference, April 2004. . "Pango: internationalized text handling" Owen Taylor in Ottawa linux symposium 2001 Pango Reference Manual , at linux.conf.au 2017 Simon Cozens explained the rendering of fonts

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