Chapter 3 : Text

1. Computers & Text

1.1. Bitmap font

1.1.1. File size increases as more sizes are added

1.1.2. Require a lot of memory

1.1.3. Non-scalable

1.2. Vector font

1.2.1. File size is much smaller than bitmaps

1.2.2. TrueType, OpenType & PostScript are vector font formats

1.3. Character sets

1.4. Extended Character Set (ISO Latin-1)

1.5. Unicode

2. Font Editing & Design Tools

2.1. Fontographer

2.2. Hypertext

2.3. Hypermedia

2.3.1. Links

2.3.2. Nodes

2.3.3. Anchors

3. Understanding Fonts and Typefaces

3.1. Font styles

3.1.1. Boldface

3.1.2. Italic

3.1.3. Underlining

3.1.4. Outlining

3.2. Font terminology

3.2.1. Baseline

3.2.2. Cap height

3.2.3. x-height

3.2.4. Ascenders/descenders

3.3. Cases

3.3.1. Kerning

3.3.2. Tracking

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