Pango Reference Manual
for Pango 1.42.1
Basic Pango Interfaces
Rendering
— Functions to run the rendering pipeline
Glyph Storage
— Structures for storing information about glyphs
Fonts
— Structures representing abstract fonts
Text Attributes
— Font and other attributes for annotating text
Tab Stops
— Structures for storing tab stops
Text Attribute Markup
— Simple markup language to encode text with attributes
Layout Objects
— High-level layout driver objects
Scripts and Languages
— Identifying writing systems and languages
Bidirectional Text
— Types and functions to help with handling bidirectional text
Vertical Text
— Laying text out in vertical directions
Rendering with Pango
Win32 Fonts and Rendering
— Functions for shape engines to manipulate Win32 fonts
FreeType Fonts and Rendering
— Functions for shape engines to manipulate FreeType fonts
Xft Fonts and Rendering
— Font handling and rendering with the Xft backend
Cairo Rendering
— Rendering with the Cairo backend
CoreText Fonts
— Font handling with CoreText fonts
Low Level Functionality
PangoRenderer
— Rendering driver base class
PangoFcFontMap
— Base fontmap class for Fontconfig-based backends
PangoFcFont
— Base font class for Fontconfig-based backends
PangoFcDecoder
— Custom font encoding handling
OpenType Font Handling
— Obtaining information from OpenType tables
Coverage Maps
— Unicode character range coverage storage
Engines
— Language-specific and rendering-system-specific processing
PangoEngineLang
— Rendering-system independent script engines
PangoEngineShape
— Rendering-system dependent script engines
Modules
— Support for loadable modules
Miscellaneous Utilities
— Various convenience and utility functions
Version Checking
— Tools for checking Pango version at compile- and run-time.
Object Hierarchy
Annotation Glossary
Index of all symbols