عنوان

Fonts & encodings

(Number (ISBN

059651834X

(Number (ISBN

9780596518349

Number

b557749

Title Proper

Fonts & encodings

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Yannis Haralambous ; translated by P. Scott Horne.

Edition Statement

1st ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Beijing ; Sebastopol, Calif.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

O'Reilly Media

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xx, 1016 pages) : illustrations

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone. Industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. This book explains information on fonts and typography that software and web developers need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.

Parallel Title

Fontes & codages.;Fonts and encodings

Computer fonts.

Type and type-founding -- Digital techniques.

Web typography.

Class number

Book number

Yannis Haralambous ; translated by P. Scott Horne.

P Scott Horne

Yannis Haralambous

Electronic name

[Book]

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