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

[Santhosh Thottingal]

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From: Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar at indlinux.org>
Date: Nov 20, 2007 10:49 PM
Subject: [Indlinux-group] finally a book on fonts!
To: Indlinux group <indlinux-group 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!).

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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.
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Karunakar

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