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+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 
+the GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text
+and font handling for GTK+-2.x.
+
+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.
+
+ - Native fonts on MacOS X with the CoreText framework, rendering via
+   Cairo.
+
+The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org)
+provides a complete solution with high quality text handling 
+and graphics rendering.
+
+As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
+PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
+and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.
+
+For more information about Pango, see:
+
+ http://www.pango.org/
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+Pango depends on the GLib library; more information about GLib can
+be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
+
+To use the Free Software stack backend, Pango depends on the following
+libraries:
+
+  * FontConfig for font discovery (http://www.fontconfig.org),
+
+  * 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).
+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.
+
+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
+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.