[smc-discuss] Re: Fwd: [Indlinux-group] finally a book on fonts!

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On Nov 21, 8:26 am, "Santhosh Thottingal" <santhos... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Guntupalli Karunakar <karuna... at indlinux.org>
> Date: Nov 20, 2007 10:49 PM
> Subject: [Indlinux-group] finally a book on fonts!
> To: Indlinux group <indlinux-gr... at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> Hi,
>
> taking the liberty to post about this new book...something I had been
> looking for long but never found (would be great to see an indian
> edition of it come!).
>
> -----------------http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102425/index.html
>
> Fonts & Encodings
> By Yannis Haralambous
> Translated by P. Scott Horne
> First Edition September 2007
> Pages: 1037
>
> 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 that covers everything from designing glyphs
> to developing software that creates and processes fonts.
>
> The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and
> industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have
> adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. Yet, many software
> applications and web sites still use a host of standards, including
> PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont,
> Panose, and OpenType. This book explores each option in depth, and
> provides background behind the processes that comprise today's
> "digital space for writing":
>
>     * Part I introduces Unicode, with a brief history of codes and
> encodings including ASCII. Learn about the morass of the data that
> accompanies each Unicode character, and how Unicode deals with
> normalization, the bidirectional algorithm, and the handling of East
> Asian characters.
>     * Part II discusses font management, including installation,
> tools for activation/deactivation, and font choices for three
> different systems: Windows, the Mac OS, and the X Window System
> (Unix).
>     * Part III deals with the technical use of fonts in two specific
> cases: the TeX typesetting system (and its successor, W, which the
> author co-developed) and web pages.
>     * Part IV describes methods for classifying fonts: Vox,
> Alessandrini, and Panose-1, which is used by Windows and the CSS
> standard. Learn about existing tools for creating (or modifying)
> fonts, including FontLab and FontForge, and become familiar with
> OpenType properties and AAT fonts.
>
> Nowhere else will you find the valuable technical information on
> fonts and typography that software developers, web developers, and
> graphic artists need to know to get typography and fonts to work
> properly.
> --------------------------
>
> Karunakar
>
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