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

[Praveen A]

hey we need a copy of this. It si 59.99$ for printed and 41.99$ for
PDF.  Should we buy the PDF?

2007/11/21, സുറുമ || suruma <surumafonts at gmail.com>:
>
> ഈ ചങ്ങായി(http://omega.enstb.org/yannis) ശരിക്കും ഒരു
> 'ഭീകരനാ'ണ്.Omega(Unicode TeX) ഉണ്ടാക്കാന് പ്രധാന പങ്കുവഹിച്ച ഇദ്ദേഹം
> സിംഹള ടെക്കിനുവേണ്ടി കിടിലന് ഒരു Metafont-ഉം ഉണ്ടാക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.
>
> 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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