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.
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
