CHAPTER 3 : TEXT
by gayathiri parisamy
1. THIS EXAMPLE SHOWS THE TIMES NEW ROMAN : FD xhp
2. TEXT ELEMENTS USED IN MULTIMEDIA : 1) Menus for navigation : A simple menu consists of the text list of topics. 2) Interactive buttons : users can create their own buttons from bitmaps and graphics. 3) Fields and Reading : A documents can be printed in one of two orientations : Portrait or landscape 4) HTML documents : HTML documents are marked using TAGS . 5) Symbols and icons : symbols are concentrated text in the form of stand-alone graphic constructs.
3. SOME OF THE COMMON USED TAGS ARE : <B> for making text boldface. <OL> tag for creating an ordered list . <IMG> tag for inserting images>
4. CHOOSING TEXT FONTS : 1) consider legibility and readability . 2) Avoid too many faces . 3) use color purposefully.
5. BITMAPS FONT CONSISTS : file size increase as more sizes are added . Required a lot of memory and non-scalable.
6. UNICODE : 16-bit architecture . covers 96382 characters . including Han Chinese , Japanese ,Arabic , Korean and Bengali and so on.
6.1. FONT MAPPING : some fonts installed in your machine may not be available in other users machine.
7. HYPERTEXT : Hypertext is a text which contains link to other texts . HYPERMEDIA : it can include other media e.g : graphics, images and especially the continues media. HYPERMEDIA STRUCTURES : LINKS ,NODES,ANCHORS.
7.1. LINKS :1) LINKS ARE CONNECTION BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS . 2) NODES : NODES AND LINKS FORM THE BACKBONE OF A KNOWLEDGE ACCESS SYSTEM . 3) ANCHORS : REFERENCES ONE DOCUMENTS TO ANOTHER DOCUMENT .
8. HYPERTEXT SYSTEM ARE USED FOR : 1) eletronic publishing and references works. 2) technical documentation . 3) Educational coursework. 4) Interactive kiosks. 5) Electronic catalogs.
9. STUDY OF FONTS AND TYPE FACES : Font styles , font terminology , cases.
10. FONT STYLES INCLUDES : boldface , italic , underlining , outlining.
11. FONT TERMINOLOGY : BASELINE : bases of characters are arranged . CAP HEIGHT : refers to the height of capital letter . X HEIGHT : baseline and the top of a lower case letter x . ASCENDERS : drop below the baseline.
12. SERIF VERSUS SANS SERIF : SERIF : is the little decoration at the end of the letter stroke. SENS SERIF : fonts do not have decoration at the end of the letter stroke.
