Fonts & encodings /

This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, with advanced material...

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Main Author: Haralambous, Yannis, 1962-
Other Authors: Horne, P. Scott
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Beijing ; Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Before Unicode
  • 2. Characters, glyphs, bytes: An introduction to Unicode
  • 3. Properties of Unicode characters
  • 4. Normalization, bidirectionality, and East Asian characters
  • 5. Using Unicode
  • 6. Font Management on the Macintosh
  • 7. Font Management under Windows
  • 8. Font Management under X Window
  • 9. Fonts in TEX and [Omega], their installation and use
  • 10. Fonts and Web Pages
  • 11. The History and Classifications of Latin Typefaces
  • 12. Editing and Creating Fonts
  • 13. Optimizing a rasterization
  • 14. Enriching Fonts: Advanced Typography
  • A. Bitmap Font Formats
  • B. TEX and [Omega] Font Formats
  • C. PostScript Font Formats
  • D. The TrueType, OpenType, and AAT Font Formats
  • E. TrueType Instructions
  • F. METAFONT and Its Derivatives
  • G. Bezier Curves.