Fonts & encodings
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Beijing ; Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly Media
2007.
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627281006719 |
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- Contents; Introduction; Explorations; The Letter and Its Parts; Letterpress Typesetting; Digital Typesetting; Font Formats; Between Characters and Glyphs: the Problems of the Electronic Document; The Structure of the Book and Ways to Use It; How to Read This Book; For the well-versed user of Unicode; For the devoted TEXist; For the reader who simply wants to produce beautiful documents; For the reader who wishes to create beautiful Web pages; For the typophile or collector of fonts; For the novice font designer; For the experienced font designer; For the developer of applications
- For the reader who doesn't match any of the preceding profilesHow to Contact Us; Before Unicode; FIELDATA; ASCII; EBCDIC; ISO 2022; ISO 8859; ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) and ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9); ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) and ISO 8859-16 (Latin-10); ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) and ISO 8859-9 (Latin-5); ISO 8859-4 (Latin-4), ISO 8859-10 (Latin-6), and ISO 8859-13 (Latin-7); ISO 8859-5, 6, 7, 8, 11; ISO 8859-14 (Latin-8); The Far East; Microsoft's code pages; Apple's encodings; Electronic mail; The Web; Characters, glyphs, bytes: An introduction to Unicode 53; Philosophical issues: characters and glyphs
- First principlesPrinciple #1: universality; Principle #2: efficiency; Principle #3: the difference between characters and glyphs; Principle #4: the well-defined semantics of characters; Principle #5: plain text; Principle #6: logical order; Principle #7: unification; Principle #8: dynamic composition; Principle #9: equivalent sequences; Principle #10: convertibility; Unwritten principle #11: permanent stability; Technical issues: characters and bytes; Character encoding forms; UTF-16 and surrogates; Detection of endianness; UTF-8 and CESU-8; SCSU and BOCU
- General organization of Unicode: planes and blocksThe BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane); Higher planes; Scripts proposed for addition; Approved proposals in balloting; Proposals in early committee review; Proposals in the initial and exploratory stages; Properties of Unicode characters; Basic properties; Name; Block and script; Age; General category; Letters; Diacritical marks; Numbers; Punctuation; Symbols; Separators; The remaining categories; Other general properties; Spaces; Alphabetic characters; Noncharacters; Ignorable characters; Deprecated characters; Logical-order exceptions
- Soft-dotted lettersMathematical characters; Quotation marks; Dashes; Hyphens; Terminal punctuation; Diacritics; Extenders; Join control; The Unicode 1 name and ISO's comments; Properties that pertain to case; Uppercase letters; Lowercase letters; Simple lowercase/uppercase/titlecase mappings; Special lowercase/uppercase/titlecase mappings; Case folding; Rendering properties; The Arabic and Syriac scripts; Managing grapheme clusters; Numeric properties; Identifiers; Reading a Unicode block; Normalization, Bidirectionality, and East Asian characters; Decompositions and Normalizations
- Combining Characters
