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In this section we will look a little deeper into the process of displaying the shapes of letters on screen and on paper. We will examine fonts and briefly cover the available font technologies. The process of mapping between character encodings and the final shapes on screen and on paper will be examined in detail.
Define a glyph and a font.
Different kinds of font technologies: scalable/bitmap, "hinting", etc. Brief descriptions of popular font technologies.
Examine various ways of encoding fonts. Describe how fonts can have multiple encodings.
Describe the process of laying out text; wrinkles of fine typography: kerning (2-d kerning), glyph substitution.
Describe the process of mapping a stream of character codes to glyph sequences for Indic scripts.
This, and other project documentation, can be downloaded from [ http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/documentation.html ].
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