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6 Viewing Fonts in Detail It is important to emphasize the fact that even a good quality monitor will not display a very small size of characters with clarity (and for a very small size of text, Windows often will change the type-face to a proprietary one). This is mainly due to the limitations of display resolution. Print quality depends to a great extent on the printer you use. A good quality printer can print many times more dots per inch than what most of good monitors can display. Commonly used laser printers print 300 dots per inch or 90,000 dots per square inch, whereas most of the computer monitors show about 75 dots per inch or 5625 dots per square inch; the difference is 16 fold. However, most of the computer monitors have one distinct edge over most of the printers. Computer monitors can show many colors and each dot can display a color by picking among millions, whereas dots in most of the printers are printed with one bit mode (like black or white) and gray tones or colors are simulated by combining such dots. To have a real (detailed) look of any character shape it is important to view the character at a large point size. Most of present day word processors allow you to type large size of text. Text at point size of 100 or above may be used for a detailed look. As seen on the monitor, character shapes at small sizes are somewhat of a compromise, although those will be printed perfect with a good quality printer. Slim versions of fonts give a clearer view of the smaller point sizes of text on the monitor than medium or thick versions of fonts. Depending on your printer, thinner versions of fonts will generally print smaller sizes of text sharper than thicker fonts. At certain point sizes, bolding of certain fonts (if you have installed bolder versions of these fonts) may not be obvious on the monitor. It is because pixels (dots) on the screen can not be divided into fractions. Under circumstances requiring pixel fractions for bolding of the text, the computer may not add a visible thickness to make bolding obvious. However, the text when printed with a good quality printer, will be perfectly bold if there is a bold version of the font installed in the system. (Note: if there is no installed bold version of a type-face then bolding is done by the software itself and is almost always obvious on the monitor. However, the printed bold text in such cases is not perfect like when a bold version of the font is available). Experience indicates that the PostScript Type-1 fonts seem to give better results as far as character clarity on the monitor is concerned and also to a good extent in printing. Due to internal limitations, the True-Type fonts often do not print or display complex characters well. Accessing Characters True Type type-face technology was originally designed by Apple for use on the Macintosh. Microsoft also licensed & developed “TrueType” for the Windows. So far as the use of the type-faces is concerned, presently there is not much difference between these environments. However, it is much easier to access type-face characters on the Macintosh that exceed the upper & lower case limit (94). It is due to the availability on the Macintosh of ‘Command’, ‘Option’ & ‘Shift + Option keys’. By pressing one or a All rights are reserved by the author, Kulbir S Thind, MD, 3724 Hacienda Street, San Mateo, CA 94403, USA.
7 combination of these keys, a full array of 47 more characters becomes easily accessible, just as with the Shift key. In the Windows environment, a common way to access the extra characters is to hold the Alt key in the pressed position and then type on the numeric key pad a zero "0" followed by the ANSI number of the character. Some of the software for the Windows environment also provide other means of accessing characters in excess of upper & lower case (for example, MS Word for Windows has a command named “Insert Symbol” which is very helpful in this regard). Version 6.0 or later versions of MS Word allow one to allocate key combinations to insert such characters with ease. With this facility, typing becomes as easy as on Macintosh. Although the operating system of Windows itself does not provide the ease of accessing more than 94 characters like the Macintosh environment does, something similar can however be achieved by many of the working software. One of the ways the word processors (and other software) achieve this is by allowing one to create macros. Short of other means, the “Character Map” utility that comes with the Windows 95 or later versions of Windows is helpful in providing some ease. Since “Windows” allows one to run “Character Map” utility simultaneously with one’s working software, it is easier to make use of this utility. It may be convenient to keep “Character Map” utility running while typing Gurmukhi or Hindi fonts. Editing Gurmukhi or Hindi Fonts To help edit characters that overlap over or under the character on the left, such characters are assigned a small width. While editing, it is always tricky to get the cursor on the right side of such a character (with essentially no width) but it can be done if care is exercised - just insert the cursor a little bit more to the right. The use of cursor arrow keys is also very useful in this regard. Although generally not a problem, inserting the cursor on the left side of an overlap character may also require precision. It may be convenient to use bigger type-face size while typing the text. Upon completion of the work (after all the text has been entered), the text size can then be reduced to the desired level. Use of Special Space Character (non-breaking space) This paragraph describes the special “space” character (ANSI # 160 for MS Windows and “Option Space” for the Macintosh) in the supplied and other fonts. This is different from the regular space character that is typed with the space bar. A regular space character separates the words but this “solid space” character behaves like other characters and has width but no shape. When this non-breaking space character is typed, it adds white space to words. This kind of space always behaves as a part of the word and moves with it (unlike the space character typed with the space bar). This character is useful in many situations. Here is a good example of its use. The overlapping GurbaniLipi character “ y ” will be displayed when there is a character on All rights are reserved by the author, Kulbir S Thind, MD, 3724 Hacienda Street, San Mateo, CA 94403, USA.
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