hu Mar 7 22:55:13 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>PANGO_1_0_0

        ===== Released 1.0.0 =====

        * NEWS: Final updates for 1.0.0.

        * README AUTHORS: Update.

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@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
-This directory includes the Pango library, several
-examples, and a couple of basic language engines.
+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-1.0 was done using the
+GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text
+and font handling for GTK+-2.0.
+
+Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
+with four different font backends:
+
+ - Core X windowing system fonts
+ - Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
+ - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
+ - Native fonts on Microsoft backends
+
+Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
+combinations of script and font backend.
+
+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:
 
@@ -8,16 +26,37 @@ For more information about Pango, see:
 Dependencies
 ============
 
-You'll need a fairly capable implementation
-of iconv() - for instance the iconv from the
-GNU C library version 2.1
+Pango depends on version 2.0.0 of the GLib library; more information
+about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
+
+To build optional the PangoFT2 backend you'll need the FreeType
+library from http://www.freetpe.org. You'll need at least version
+2.0.1.
+
+To build the PangoX backend, you'll need the libraries from the X
+window system are needed to build Pango and GTK+. You should already
+have these installed on your system, but it's possible that you'll
+need to install the development environment for these libraries that
+your operating system vendor provides.
+
+If you have a recent version of the XFree86 system, such as 4.2.0,
+then the PangoXft backend will built, which provides anti-aliased and
+scaleable fonts in a much more sophisticated fashion then the support
+for core X fonts.
 
 Notes
 =====
 
-- There is a bug in some X servers (XF86-3.3.5 + TNT2) for
-  example that keeps the johab fonts used for the hangul
-  module from displaying correctly.
+ - A bug in older versions of Xft will cause random crashes with
+   the PangoXft backend. If you want to use the Xft backend, you 
+   should have at least XFree86 4.2.
+
+ - By default, Pango tries to build itself so that no explicit
+   dependency on Xft or FreeType will be introduced in apps that
+   link to Pango. This is to avoid compatibility problems when
+   Xft version 2 is introduced. Specifying --enable-explicit-deps
+   or --enable-static when configuring Pango will defeat this
+   and should be avoided if possible.
 
 License
 =======
@@ -28,4 +67,4 @@ COPYING for details.
 
 Owen Taylor
 otaylor@redhat.com
-9 July 1999
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+7 March 2002