---
name: "pango-segmentation"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pango"
version: "1:1.58.2-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pango-segmentation"
---

# pango-segmentation(1)

Pango text segmentation

## Name

pango-segmentation - Pango text segmentation

## SYNOPSIS

```
pango-segmentation [OPTIONS...] [FILE]
```

## DESCRIPTION

**pango-segmentation** shows text boundaries determined by Pango.

These can be graphemes (cursor positions), words boundaries, word starts and ends, line break possibilities, sentence boundaries, or sentence starts and ends.

## HELP OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Show help options.

- **--version**

  Print the command's version and exit.

## APPLICATION OPTIONS

- **--text=STRING**

  Text to display (instead of **FILE**).

- **--kind=KIND**

  The boundary to show. **KIND** can be one of grapheme, word, words, line, sentence, sentences. (default: grapheme).