作者简介
Yannis Haralambous was born in Athens (Greece) in 19 6 2. He moved to France in 19 7 9 to study at the Université de Lille I, where in 1990 he completed his doctoral dissertation in pure mathematics. 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), internationalization, and the electronic book. He has been the co-developer of Ω, a successor to TEX, now merged into the very promising luaTEX.He is married to Tereza (who is, among other things, an excel lent font designer). Together they have two daughters: Ernestine Chloé Hélène (*1998) and Danaé Elsa Catherine 英子(*200 4 ), whose photo s are shown on page 620 for the reader ’s appreciation. Apart from typography, his chief passion is so-called “ classic al” piano music (from Bach to Hindemith, including Schumann, Debussy, and Poulenc along the way), especially chamber music.
内容简介
The era of ASCII characters on green screen s is long gone. Today, industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Micro soft , and Oracle have adopted the Uni code Worldwide Character Standard, and acceptance among developers is rapidly increasing. Yet much software and many web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This new reference book is a comprehensive guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. "Fonts & Encodings" shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options av ai lable. Advanced material covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts. This book explains info rmation on fonts and typography that software and web developers need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.
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 mathematics. 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...
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