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Docs: move harfbuzz-ng-vs-old discussion down below the TOC; put in note.

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<graphic fileref="HarfBuzz.png" format="PNG" align="center"/>
<para>
HarfBuzz is an <ulink url="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/">OpenType</ulink>
text shaping engine.
text shaping engine. Using the HarfBuzz library allows
programs to convert a sequence of Unicode input text into
properly formatted and positioned output&mdash;for any writing
system and language.
</para>
<para>
The current HarfBuzz codebase, formerly known as harfbuzz-ng, is
versioned 1.x.x and is stable and under active maintenance. This is
what is used in latest versions of Firefox, GNOME, ChromeOS, Chrome,
LibreOffice, XeTeX, Android, and KDE, among other places. The canonical
source tree is available
<ulink url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/">here</ulink>.
Also available on
<ulink url="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz">github</ulink>.
The canonical source-code tree is available at
<ulink
url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/">cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz</ulink>
and at
<ulink
url="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz">github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz</ulink>.
See <xref linkend="download" endterm="download.title"/> for release tarballs.
</para>
<para>
The old HarfBuzz codebase, these days known as harfbuzz-old, was
derived from <ulink url="http://freetype.org/">FreeType</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://pango.org/">Pango</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://qt-project.org/">Qt</ulink> and is available
<ulink url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz.old/">here</ulink>.
It is not actively developed or maintained, and is extremely buggy. All
users are encouraged to switch over to the new HarfBuzz as soon as
possible. There are no release tarballs of old HarfBuzz whatsoever.
</para>
</abstract>
</bookinfo>
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<ulink role="online-location" url="http://[SERVER]/libharfbuzz/index.html">http://[SERVER]/libharfbuzz/</ulink>.-->
</releaseinfo>
</partinfo>
<note>
<para>
The current HarfBuzz codebase is versioned 1.x.x and is stable
and under active maintenance. This is what is used in latest
versions of Firefox, GNOME, ChromeOS, Chrome, LibreOffice,
XeTeX, Android, and KDE, among other places.
</para>
<para>
Prior to 2012, the original HarfBuzz codebase (which, these
days, is referred to as <emphasis>harfbuzz-old</emphasis>) was
derived from code in <ulink
url="http://freetype.org/">FreeType</ulink>, <ulink
url="http://pango.org/">Pango</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://qt-project.org/">Qt</ulink>.
It is <emphasis>not</emphasis> actively developed or
maintained, and is extremely buggy. All users of harfbuzz-old
are encouraged to switch over to the new HarfBuzz as soon as possible.
</para>
<para>
To make this distinction clearer in discussions, the current
HarfBuzz codebase is sometimes referred to as
<emphasis>harfbuzz-ng</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>
For reference purposes, the harfbuzz-old source tree is archived
<ulink
url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz.old/">here</ulink>. There
are no release tarballs of harfbuzz-old whatsoever.
</para>
</note>
<title>Reference manual</title>
<chapter>
<title>Core API</title>