Windows® 98 Unleashed

Chapter 20. Using Fonts in Windows 98

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Fontamentals, Part I: The Architecture of Characters

• Fontamentals, Part II: Screen Fonts Versus Printer Fonts

• Fontamentals, Part III: The Font-Rendering Mechanism

• Working with Fonts

• Adding New Fonts to Windows 98

• Deleting Old Fonts

• Font Tips

• Using Character Map for Extra Symbols and Characters

• Font Limitations

• Troubleshooting Fonts

Letterforms conceal arbitrarily deep mysteries.

—Douglas Hofstadter

Windows has turned many otherwise ordinary citizens into avid amateur typographers. People at cocktail parties the world over are debating the relative merits of serif versus sans serif fonts, expounding the virtues of typefaces with names like Desdemona and Braggadocio, and generally just byte-bonding ...