Chapter 3 Text

1. Text Elements used in Multimedia

1.1. Menus for navigation

1.2. Interactive buttons

1.3. Fields for reading

1.4. HTML documents

1.5. Symbols and Icons

2. Bitmaps font

2.1. Consist of a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image

3. Fonts & Typefaces

3.1. Font styles

3.1.1. Bold

3.1.2. Italic

3.1.3. Underlining

3.1.4. Outlining

3.2. Font Terminology

3.2.1. Srif

3.2.2. Ascenders/Descenders

3.2.3. X-Height

3.2.4. Cap height

3.2.5. Baseline

3.2.6. Tracking

3.2.7. Kerning

3.3. Cases

3.3.1. Capitalized letter-Uppercase

3.3.2. Small letter-Lowercase

4. Hypermedia

4.1. Is not constrained to be text-based

4.2. Can include other media-graphics, images

4.3. Links

4.4. Anchors

4.5. Nodes

5. hypertext

5.1. Is a text which contains links to other texts.

6. Rasterization

6.1. The process of converting text from a vector description to a raster or bitmap description

7. Vector front

7.1. Instructions and mathematical formula to describe each glyph