Libros UCLV { BETA }

Tipografía digital

This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts and Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glypsh to developing software that creates and processes fonts. The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. This only solves part of the problem, as a multitude of font standards and tools remain between the numeric character codes and their presentation. This book explores how those pieces fit together. Yannis Haralambous was born in Athens (Greece) in 1962. He moved to France in 1979 to study at the Université de Lille I, where in 1990 he completed his doctoral dissertation in pure mathe- matics. After a brief period at INALCO and several years of self-employment, in 2001 he joined the faculty of ENST Bretagne, in Brest (Brittany), where he teaches computer science. He does his research in the fields of digital typography (especially for the languages of East Asia), internation- alization, and the electronic book. He has been the co-developer of Omega, a successor to TeX, now merged into the very promising luaTeX.