Книга: Unicode Typefaces: Caslon, Everson Mono, Dejavu Fonts, Liberation Fonts, Stix Fonts Project, Cambria, Gnu Unifont, Bitstream Cyberbit

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Caslon, Everson Mono, Dejavu Fonts, Liberation Fonts, Stix Fonts Project, Cambria, Gnu Unifont, Bitstream Cyberbit, Lucida Grande, Free Ucs Outline Fonts, New Gulim, Linux Libertine, Caslon Roman, Lucida Sans Unicode, Monospace, Unihan Font, Clearlyu, Asana-Math, Ebrima, Nyala. Excerpt: A Unicode typeface (also known as UCS font and Unicode font) is a typeface that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world. Unlike most conventional computer fonts, which are specific to a particular language or legacy character set and contain only a small subset of the UCS characters, these fonts attempt to include many thousands of possible glyphs, so that they can be used as a single typeface across multi-lingual documents. The Unicode standard does not specify the typeface (a collection of graphical shapes called glyphs) itself, but rather instead, it defines the abstract characters as a specific number (known as a codepoint) and also defines the required changes of shape depending on the context the glyph is used in (e.g., Combining characters, precomposed characters and letter-diacritic combinations). The choice of font, which governs how the abstract UCS characters are converted into a bitmap or vector output that can be viewed on a screen or printed, is left up to the user. If a font is chosen which does not contain a glyph for a codepoint used in the document, typically a question mark ('?'), a box, or some other Substitute character is displayed. Currently (August, 2008), no single 'Unicode font' includes all the characters defined in the present rev... More: booksllc.net/?id=5256709