# README
textprocessing
An experimental port of Fribidi/Pango/FontConfig in Go
This module provides a chain of tools to layout text. It is mainly a port of the following C libraries : Pango, fribidi, fontconfig, and depends on textlayout for low level text shaping and font parsing.
Status of the project
This project is an experimental work in progress. A better alternative is the new go-text project.
Licensing
As a derivative work, this module is licensed as LGPL.
# Packages
Package fontconfig provides a way to list the fonts of a system and to query the best match with user defined criteria.
Package fribidi is a Golang port of the C/C++ Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi).
Package pango is a port of the C library, which provides international text layout.