Chapter 3: Text
by Leonard Chin Yen Haw
1. Understanding Fonts and Typefaces
1.1. Font styles
1.1.1. Boldface
1.1.2. Italic
1.1.3. Underlining
1.1.4. Outlining
1.2. Font terminology
1.2.1. Baseline
1.2.2. Cap height
1.2.3. x-height
1.2.4. Ascenders/descenders
1.2.5. Kerning
1.2.6. Tracking
1.3. Cases
2. Font Editing and Design Tools
2.1. FontLab, Ltd.
2.2. Creating attractive texts
2.3. Fontographer
3. Hypertext vs Hypermedia
3.1. Hypertext
3.2. Hypermedia
3.2.1. Links
3.2.2. Nodes
3.2.3. Anchors
4. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation
4.1. Menus for navigation
4.2. Interactive buttons
4.3. Fields for reading
4.4. HTML documents
4.5. Symbols and icons
5. Computers and Text
5.1. Bitmap font and Vector font
5.2. Character sets
5.2.1. Extended Character Set (ISO Latin-1)
5.2.2. Unicode