Chapter 3: Text

1. Fonts and Typefaces                             Typeface- A family of graphic characters often with many type sizes and styles.                                   Font- Collection of a single size and style belonging to a particular typeface family.

2. Fonts & Typefaces                               -Font styles                                           -Font terminology                               -Cases

3. Text Elements used in multimedia:     -Menus for navigation                         -Interactive buttons                             -Fields for reading                               -HTML documents                               -Symbols and icons

4. Computer & Text                                                     -Bitmap VS Vector                                       *Bitmaps font consist of a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image.                     *Vector fonts drawing use instructions and mathematical formula to describe each glyph.     -Rasterization                                               *Process of converting text from a vector description to a raster or bitmap description.      -Character Sets                                                        *Computers can only understand numbers,so an ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) code.                                                   -Extended Character Set                                           -Unicode

5. Hypertext VS Hypermedia                                       -Hypertext         *Is a text which contains links to other texts.         *Hypertext is subset of hypermedia.                       -Hypermedia                                                           *Hypermedia is not constrained to be text-based. *Exp: Images, sound and video.           -Navigating hypermedia structure                         -Hypermedia structure *Links     *Nodes    *Anchors

6. Hypertext systems are used for:         -Electronic publishing and reference works                                                     -Technical documentation                   -Educational courseware                     -Interactive kiosks                               -Electronic catalogs