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Fonts & Encodings
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Fonts & Encodings (2007) (edit title/settings)

by Yannis Haralambous (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • “But this space would be quite sad if each letter lived all by itself in its own little bubble. Far from being so isolated, letters, and more generally glyphs of all kinds, are highly social creatures. They love to form little groups (words), which in turn form larger and larger groups (lines, paragraphs, pages, books).We call this process typesetting”

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Homo sapiens is a species that writes.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Introduction
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 Ω, 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 (p.599)
B TEX and Ω Font Formats
C PostScript Font Formats
D The TrueType, OpenType, and AAT Font Formats
E TrueType Instructions
F METAFONT and Its Derivatives
G BézierCurves

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Yannis Haralambous (Author)

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  1. P. Scott Horne (Translator) - Translated this book from french to English and correct countless errors (even in the Chinese passages). he prepared this translation with the utmost care

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: French
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: September 2007
ISBN: 978-0-596-10242-5
Page Count: 1039

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  2. comunicação visual, 
  3. emprestado, 
  4. encoding, 
  5. font 

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