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<refentry id="libpango-10-3">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">31 Aug 2004</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

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<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>

layout and rendering of internationalized text</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>libpangox-1.0</primary></indexterm><indexterm>

<primary>X11 support for Pango</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>libpangoft2-1.0</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>FreeType2 fonts and rendering support for Pango</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>libpangoxft-1.0</primary></indexterm><indexterm>

<primary>Font handling and rendering with the Xft backend</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>libpangocairo-1.0</primary></indexterm><indexterm>

<primary>Rendering with the Cairo backend</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="libpango-10-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refname>

libpangoft2-1.0</refname><refname>libpangox-1.0</refname>

<refname>libpangoxft-1.0</refname><refname>libpangocairo-1.0</refname>

<refpurpose>layout and rendering of internationalized text with X11, FreeType2,

Xft, and Cairo support</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libpango-10-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

Pango provides a framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized

text. The name is derived from the Greek "Pan" which means "All", and the

Japanese "Go" which means "Language".

</para>

<para>

To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the

package.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libpango-10-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>The following files are used by this library:</para>

<variablelist termlength="wide">

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

Internationalization shared library

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>/usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so</term>

<listitem><para>

Pango Cairo rendering backend shared library

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>/usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so</term><listitem>

<para>

X11 support for Pango shared library

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>/usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so</term>

<listitem><para>

FreeType2 font and rendering backend for Pango shared library

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>/usr/lib/libpangoxft2-1.0.so</term>

<listitem><para>

Font handling and rendering with the Xft backend for Pango shared library

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/pango</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

Location of developer documentation

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libpango-10-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>

See

<olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><para>Availability</para></entry>

<entry><para>library/desktop/pango</para></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Committed</para></entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libpango-10-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pango-querymodules</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libpango-10-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>

Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004.

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>