Errata

Dates seem wrong, says point unit invented in 1699, refined in 1664. Probably a typo for 1764 - I don't think Fournier was born yet in 1664.

dates seem wrong, says point unit invented in 1699, refined in 1664.

probably a typo for 1764, i don't think Fournier was born yet in 1664 ;-)

B. TeX et [omega] fonts => B. TeX and [omega] fonts

with 2^12 = 4,096 bits => with 12 bits (2^12 = 4,096 patterns)

'1a, '2o', etc. => '1a', '2o', etc.

.. => ....

'a' 'o' => 'a', 'o'

for "CES") => (or "CES")

(Quote from Window n, => (Quote from Window n),

Allocated Codepoints => Allocated codepoints

groups of 4 to 6 katakana => groups of 2 to 6 katakana
# 2 katakana: "kiro" (0x3314), "doru" (0x3326), etc.

"actually made of ** characters" -- should ** be something else?

The code point range given as

0x1D400-0x0x1D7FF

should read

0x1D400-0x1D7FF

The 3d century CE => the 3rd century CE

Latin- Supplement => Latin-1 supplement

Canadian_aboriginal => Canadian_Aboriginal
Old_italic => Old_Italic
Tai_le => Tai_Le
Linear_b => Linear_B

The Breton 'c'h' is a trigraph, not a digraph.

'sampi #5' should be sampi '#5'.

(#5 is the encoding for sampi in Beta code, which is used to represent Greek characters in ASCII.)

The quote characters in Pi are not quoted, whereas quote characters are quoted elsewhere (such as Pf below, the apostrophe on page 30, and the general punctuation block on pages 77-78).

Also, the double quote in Pf is hard to read because of the surrounding quotes. The apostrophe on page 77 and the double quotes on pate 78 have some space between the surrounding quotes that the double quote in Pf lacks.

"other, surrogate" characters => "other, surrogate" characters Cs

the "hyphen" property => the "terminal punctuation" property

The last line of the second paragraph under Normalization Forms says to see page 4 in reference to the hangul syllables. However, page 4 does not mention hangul at all.

The final reversal of the third example has an extra E at the beginning (right side) of the string.

I_{h} and I_{v} should be V_{h} and V_{v}.

book shows

encoding="UTF-"

but should be

encoding="UTF-8"

"quoted-printable (page 48)" should be "quoted-printable (page 49)".

"it opens like any other file" should be "it opens like any other directory" because the behavior
described is that of a directory (a.k.a. folder) in the Finder, not a file.

"only a handful of Macintoshes" should be "only a handful of fonts"

"Optima gras" should be "Optima bold".

In the images that begin "What is more readible," "readible" should be "readable".

Also, is the bottom line of the image on page 207 supposed to be antialiased? With the antialiasing its two lines look almost identical, but it seems like its bottom line should look the same as the bottom line in the image on page 208.

The description of Figure 7-7 in the text (pp. 215-6) does not match the image. The text states that the Multiple Master instance is bold 435, width 350, optical size 68, but the image shows italic 446, width 350, optical size 34. Figure 7-6 has the same settings as Figure 7-7.

The fontseries entry for ultra-bold should be ``ub'' not ``ul''

In the last line of the penultimate paragraph ("That solves the problem..."), there is a double quote after the first dal-parenthesis string. It should be a single quote.

There is an extra closing parenthesis.

the sentence is written as:
font-face, which contairs the global informations
instead of <<contains>>, I suppose

Best Regards

"Stanley Morrison" should be "Stanley Morison" on all three pages. (On the other hand, it is written correctly on p402.)

"Benner's" should probably be "Berner's".

The comma in 'Thus it was he who designed the first garaldes, which Blanchard called "germanized Garamonds"' appears to be an error and should be removed.

i.e. 'Thus it was he who designed the first garaldes which Blanchard called "germanized Garamonds"...'

The inclusion of the comma causes the sentence to claim (a) that Kis designed the first garalde typefaces in general, which he clearly did not; and (b) that garaldes in general have been described as "germanized Garamonds", also false.

The intended meaning is evidently that Kis designed the first garaldes that could be described as germanized Garamonds. Deleting the comma will restore this meaning.

"Dwiggings" should be "Dwiggins".

"75" should be "7.5".

"We say that the serifs are simple..." should be "We say that the serifs are single...". Panose does not use the word "simple" to describe serifs.

typo at the end of the paragraph: "..., and ofter poorly at that." -> often

`GetContourNumbers()' is a misprint for `GetContoursNumber()'

Figure 14-4: "OpenType window". Should read: "Classes window"

It appears that much of the text in B.4, the section on OVF, was copied from B.2, the section on OFM, but not updated correctly. For example, they both start out with the the phrase "The OFM format was defined by John Plaice and the author..." even those B.4 is supposed to be explaining the OVF format not OFM as B.2 does. For example, the last sentence in each section is verbatim identical as well.

This is in the September 2007 printing.

%!PS-Adobe-.0
should read:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0

/FontBBox [- - 1006 747] def
should be
/FounBBox [-<number> -<number> 1006 747] def

30 63 vstem 413 63 vstem - 50 hstem 634 50 hstem
should be:
30 63 vstem 413 63 vstem -9 50 hstem 634 50 hstem

KPX F comma -
should be
KPX F comma -<number>

/FontBBox {{- - - -} ...

/BlueValues[[ - - - - - - - - ]...

/FontBbox [ - - 1023 900 ] def

/BlueValues [ - 0 800 806 550 575 ] def

<FontBBox value="- - 1195 940"/>

<xMin value="-"/>
<yMin value="-"/>

<descent value="-"/>

<underlinePosition value="-"/>

<pt x="44" y="-" on="1"/>

<pt x="780" y="-" on="1"/>

<pair l="A" r="S" v="-"/>

<record yMax="7" yMin="-" ...

<descent value="-"/>

<MinCoord value="-"/>

the Flemish 'ij'
should read: the Dutch 'ij'

In "growPriority et shrinkPriority", "et" should be "and".

"et" should read "and"

(948) 'special version TeX' => 'special version of TeX'

2e edition should be 2nd edition.

2e edition should be 2nd edition.

2e edition should be 2nd edition

The 'okina (the ' character) in Hawai'i is incorrect. It should look like a single opening quotation mark (U+2018 or &lsquo;) instead of a single closing quotation mark or apostrophe (U+2019 or &rsquo;). Technically it should be represented by U+02BB (modifier letter turned comma), but U+2018 is identical in appearance. In other words, the 'okina should be shaped like a 6, not like a 9.

(Some sources, including the Unicode character details, use the ` character to represent the 'okina (or `okina) in ASCII, but this is of arguable correctness.)

3e edition should be 3rd edition.

The index entry for Icelandic eth is under D, not E.

The eszett is listed under "eszett", but not under "ss".

Several index entries beginning with "font-" are misplaced. They appear in the second column, between "font" and "FontAgent", instead of near to the rest of the "font-" entries in the third column. "Font/DA Mover" could similarly be moved between "fontconv" and "FONTDEV (DVI)"..

"@font-face (CSS)" is not in the index. It is mentioned on page 327 and 328.

"J.F." is listed between "pound sign" and "pre-chain".

"Dwiggings" should be "Dwiggins".

"[Omega] system" is incorrectly formatted. The ~ that should represent a non-breaking space in TeX is instead printed as an accent above the first s in system, and there is no space between [Omega] and system.