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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ with three different font backends:
- Native fonts on Microsoft backends
(There is also a core-X font backend still present in the code;
-usage of this backend is deprecated)
+usage of this backend is deprecated.)
Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend.
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ For more information about Pango, see:
Dependencies
============
-Pango depends on version 2.4.0 or new of the GLib library; more
+Pango depends on version 2.6.0 or new of the GLib library; more
information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
-The supported font backend for X in Pango-1.4 is the Xft backend
+The supported font backend for X in Pango-1.8 is the Xft backend
which uses version 2 of the Xft library to manage client
side fonts. Version 2 of Xft is available from http://fontconfig.org/
Along with Xft, you'll need to install its dependency fontconfig, and
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ your system. Both of these libraries are available from
the same place as fontconfig.
Note that an earlier version of Xft is shipped with version
-of XFree86 up to 4.2. This version does not work with Pango-1.4;
-Pango-1.4 requires version 2 of Xft, which is present in XFree86-4.3
+of XFree86 up to 4.2. This version does not work with Pango-1.8;
+Pango-1.8 requires version 2 of Xft, which is present in XFree86-4.3
and newer and in X11R6.7 and X11R6.8.
Both Xft and the optional PangoFT2 backend require the fontconfig
@@ -88,4 +88,4 @@ README file.
Owen Taylor
otaylor@redhat.com
-13 September 2004
+15 December 2004