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" Fonts & encodings "
Yannis Haralambous ; translated by P. Scott Horne.
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BL
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737874
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b557749
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Yannis Haralambous ; translated by P. Scott Horne.
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Fonts encodings\ Yannis Haralambous ; translated by P. Scott Horne.
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1st ed
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Beijing ; Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, 2007
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(xx, 1016 pages) : illustrations
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059651834X
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: 9780596518349
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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.
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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.
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Computer fonts.
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Type and type-founding -- Digital techniques.
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Web typography.
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Z250.Y366 2007
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P Scott Horne
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Yannis Haralambous
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Fontes & codages.;Fonts and encodings
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