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Chapter 3: Text by Mind Map: Chapter 3: Text

1. The study of fonts and typefaces includes the following: 1 Font styles 2. Font terminology 3. Cases

2. Font styles include: 1. Boldface 2. Italic 3. Underlining 4. Outlining

3. Bitmap font 1. File size increases as more sizes are added. 2. Require a lot of memory. 3. Non-scalable. Vector font 1. File size is much smaller than bitmaps. 2. TrueType, OpenType and PostScript are vector font formats.

4. Hypertext 1. Hypertext is a text which contains links to other texts. 2. The term was invented by Ted Nelson around 1965. 3. Hypertext is the subset of hypermedia. Hypermedia 1. Hypermedia is not constrained to be text-based. 2. It can include other media, e.g., graphics, images, and especially the continuous media – sound and video.

5. Font Terminology 1. Baseline 2. Cap height 3. X-height 4. Ascenders/descenders 5. Kerning 6. Tracking

6. The text elements used in multimedia are: 1.Menus for navigation 2. Interactive buttons 3. Fields for reading 4. HTML documents 5. Symbols and icons

7. Hypertext systems are used for: 1. Electronic publishing and reference works 2. Technical documentation 3. Educational courseware 4. Interactive kiosks 5. Electronic catalogs

8. Hypermedia structures 1. Links 2. Nodes 3. Anchors