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+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; however, most of the work on Pango so far has been done using 
@@ -8,18 +11,16 @@ Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
 with different font backends. There are three basic backends, with
 multiple options for rendering with each.
 
- - Client side fonts using the FreeType and FontConfig libraries.
-   Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly
-   to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.
-
- - Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for complex
-   script handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or directly
-   using the native Win32 API.
+- Client side fonts using the FreeType and FontConfig libraries.
+  Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly
+  to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.
+- Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for complex
+  script handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or directly
+  using the native Win32 API.
+- Native fonts on MacOS X with the CoreText framework, rendering via
+  Cairo.
 
- - Native fonts on MacOS X with the CoreText framework, rendering via
-   Cairo.
-
-The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org)
+The integration of Pango with [Cairo](https://cairographics.org)
 provides a complete solution with high quality text handling 
 and graphics rendering.
 
@@ -29,24 +30,21 @@ and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.
 
 For more information about Pango, see:
 
- http://www.pango.org/
+ https://www.pango.org/
 
 Dependencies
-============
-
+------------
 Pango depends on the GLib library; more information about GLib can
-be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
+be found at https://www.gtk.org/.
 
 To use the Free Software stack backend, Pango depends on the following
 libraries:
 
-  * FontConfig for font discovery (http://www.fontconfig.org),
+- [FontConfig](https://www.fontconfig.org) for font discovery,
+- [FreeType](https://www.freetype.org) for font access,
+- [HarfBuzz](http://www.harfbuzz.org) for complex text shaping
 
-  * FreeType for font access (http://www.freetype.org),
-
-  * HarfBuzz for complex text shaping (http://www.harfbuzz.org/)
-
-Cairo support depends on the Cairo library (http://cairographics.org).
+Cairo support depends on the [Cairo](https://cairographics.org) library.
 The Cairo backend is the preferred backend to use Pango with and is
 subject of most of the development in the future.  It has the
 advantage that the same code can be used for display and printing.
@@ -54,14 +52,13 @@ advantage that the same code can be used for display and printing.
 We suggest using Pango with Cairo as described above, but you can also
 do X-specific rendering using the Xft library. The Xft backend uses
 version 2 of the Xft library to manage client side fonts. Version 2 of
-Xft is available from http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/.  You'll
+Xft is available from https://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/.  You'll
 need the libXft package, and possibly the libXrender and renderext
 packages as well.  You'll also need FontConfig.
 
 Installation of Pango on Win32 is possible, see README.win32.
 
 License
-=======
-
+-------
 Most of the code of Pango is licensed under the terms of the 
 GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) - see the file COPYING for details.