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Dan McKinnon, October 2007
this puts the U in Unicode and is a must read for anyone that wants to learn more about this exciting topic
ComputerWorld, October 2007
Overall, I rate this an exceptional achievement.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is surely the definitive work on the topic, and manages to be readable as well.
The chapters cover: Before Unicode; Introduction to Unicode; Properties of characters; Normalisation, Bidirectionality, and East Asian characters; Using Unicode; Font management; TEX; Web pages; History of typefaces; Creating fonts; Rasterisation; Advanced typography. The appendixes cover Font formats, TrueType instructing, Bezier curves.
The author is a Macintosh user and so, refreshingly, gives equal coverage to OS-X, Linux, and Windows. I can't vouch for the Windows material, but the Linux information is sound, if a little dated in places.
The chapters cover: Before Unicode; Introduction to Unicode; Properties of characters; Normalisation, Bidirectionality, and East Asian characters; Using Unicode; Font management; TEX; Web pages; History of typefaces; Creating fonts; Rasterisation; Advanced typography. The appendixes cover Font formats, TrueType instructing, Bezier curves.
The author is a Macintosh user and so, refreshingly, gives equal coverage to OS-X, Linux, and Windows. I can't vouch for the Windows material, but the Linux information is sound, if a little dated in places.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's great to see such a thorough book on the subject.
The coverage of Unicode is good and written in plain English.
The book covers history and technical implementation details, with many examples
of usage. There is also coverage of East Asian scripts (CJK).
I liked finding the sections on modifying keyboard layouts and managing
fonts on Mac OS 9, Mac OSX, Windows XP, and X Windows (including GNU/Linux).
The information on X11 is not complete, but still very good.
Oddly, the author uses the term "X Window," which should in my opinion be X, X11,
X Window System or X Windows. This is probably due to pressure not to use the word
"Windows," although "X Windows" is the common term.
The sections on TeX, SVG and Postscript are invaluable, and there is even info
for creating and publishing your own custom fonts to browsers.
Overall, I would say that the book is an invaluable reference for anyone who deals
with fonts, typography and i18n issues.
The coverage of Unicode is good and written in plain English.
The book covers history and technical implementation details, with many examples
of usage. There is also coverage of East Asian scripts (CJK).
I liked finding the sections on modifying keyboard layouts and managing
fonts on Mac OS 9, Mac OSX, Windows XP, and X Windows (including GNU/Linux).
The information on X11 is not complete, but still very good.
Oddly, the author uses the term "X Window," which should in my opinion be X, X11,
X Window System or X Windows. This is probably due to pressure not to use the word
"Windows," although "X Windows" is the common term.
The sections on TeX, SVG and Postscript are invaluable, and there is even info
for creating and publishing your own custom fonts to browsers.
Overall, I would say that the book is an invaluable reference for anyone who deals
with fonts, typography and i18n issues.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The Ultimate Fonts & Encodings Reference
26 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
'Fonts & Encodings' by Yannis Haralambous is about as complete a book as you will find on any computer topic, bar none. Rarely are expectations exceeded when it comes to anything in life, but this book goes way way way beyond what any other fonts/encodings book has done in the past. Packing 1000+ pages of content into this text, the author discusses all the relevant topics as hand, from history to font creation and specification to math involved in creating these typefaces we use every day... truly to infinity and beyond!!!
If you are a developer or user of fonts and want to learn more about the history of how difficult and non-trivial even the most basic characters were to get on your browser window, this book is for you. If you need this pertinent information and are in the business of creating fonts yourself, this book is for you. If you are just interested in the topic of one of the most basic computer technologies, this book is (you guessed it) for you!!!
With 14 chapters and 6 appendices, this book truly puts the U in Unicode and is a must read for anyone that wants to learn more about this exciting topic!!
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
If you are a developer or user of fonts and want to learn more about the history of how difficult and non-trivial even the most basic characters were to get on your browser window, this book is for you. If you need this pertinent information and are in the business of creating fonts yourself, this book is for you. If you are just interested in the topic of one of the most basic computer technologies, this book is (you guessed it) for you!!!
With 14 chapters and 6 appendices, this book truly puts the U in Unicode and is a must read for anyone that wants to learn more about this exciting topic!!
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
24 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
Are you a software developer, web developer or graphic artist who needs to know how to get typography and fonts to work properly? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Yannis Haralambous, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you how to use fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software.
Haralambous, begins with a history of codes and encodings, starting in antiquity. Then, the author presents an introduction to Unicode. Next, he explains the internal workings of encoding. The author also focuses on the following three mechanisms: normalization, the bi-directional algorithm, and the handling of East Asian characters. He continues by addressing a specific problem: how to produce a text encoded in Unicode. Then, the author discusses not the fonts themselves, but their management. Next, he deals with the use of fonts in two specific cases: the TEX typesetting system and Web pages. The author also describes three methods for classifying fonts: Vox, Alessandrini and Panose-1. Finally, he describes the existing tools for creating fonts.
In this most excellent book, the reader is offered a certain number of tools to confront various problems with fonts. Here, the author does not concern himself with all aspects of the electronic document, just those pertaining to characters and glyphs that diirectly and inevitably affect encodings and fonts.
Haralambous, begins with a history of codes and encodings, starting in antiquity. Then, the author presents an introduction to Unicode. Next, he explains the internal workings of encoding. The author also focuses on the following three mechanisms: normalization, the bi-directional algorithm, and the handling of East Asian characters. He continues by addressing a specific problem: how to produce a text encoded in Unicode. Then, the author discusses not the fonts themselves, but their management. Next, he deals with the use of fonts in two specific cases: the TEX typesetting system and Web pages. The author also describes three methods for classifying fonts: Vox, Alessandrini and Panose-1. Finally, he describes the existing tools for creating fonts.
In this most excellent book, the reader is offered a certain number of tools to confront various problems with fonts. Here, the author does not concern himself with all aspects of the electronic document, just those pertaining to characters and glyphs that diirectly and inevitably affect encodings and fonts.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great book lots of errors though
19 Jan 2008
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This is a terrific book for the technically minded person either designing type or dealing with its use from a technology perspective. I read the English translation and found the writing good and informative. My problem is that there appear to be numerous typos particularly in the hundreds of code examples. This may only be in the translation since I have not seen the original French. I hope the publisher can give it a thorough proof reading!
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