Chapter 3 Text
by Hwa Xu
1. Typeface: - a family of graphic characters, many type sizes and styles
2. The study of fonts and typefaces includes: - Font styles - Font terminology - Cases
3. Computer and Text: - Character sets - Extended Character Set (ISO Latin-1) - Unicode
4. Font editing and Design Tools: - Fontgrapher
5. Hypertext: - contains link to other texts - invented by Ted Nelson, 1965 - subset of hypermedia Hypermedia - not constrained to be text-based - can include other media
6. Font: - a collection of characters of a single size - style belonging to a particular typeface family
7. Text elements used in multimedia are: - Menus for navigation - Interactive buttons - Fields for reading - HTML documents - Symbols and icons
8. Bitmap: a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image. Vector: can draw any size by scaling the vector drawing primitives mathematically.
9. Hypermedia Structures: - Links - Nodes - Anchors