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. Vector font

3.1. Instructions and mathematical formula to describe each glyph

4. Rasterization

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

5. Hypertext

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

6. Hypermedia

6.1. Is not constrained to be text-based.

6.2. Can include other media-graphics, images

6.3. Links

6.4. Anchors

6.5. Nodes

7. Fonts & Typefaces

7.1. Font styles

7.1.1. Bold

7.1.2. Italic

7.1.3. Underlining

7.1.4. Outlining

7.2. Font Terminology

7.2.1. Kerning

7.2.2. Tracking

7.2.3. Baseline

7.2.4. Cap Height

7.2.5. X-Height

7.2.6. Ascenders / Descenders

7.2.7. Serif

7.2.8. Sans Serif

7.3. Cases

7.3.1. Capitalized letter-Uppercase

7.3.2. Small letter-Lowercase