Chapter 2 TEXT

2.1 Different Text Attributes Font a set of printable or displayable text characters in a specific style and size Typeface the type design for a set of fonts Arial Times New Roman Courier

2.1 Different Text Attributes A typeface family may contain a number of fonts Arial typeface family Arial Arial Black Arial Narrow Arial Unicode MS Find the number of fonts of Lucida family.

2.1 Different Text Attributes Font typefaces are either Serif for decoration enhance readability e.g. Times New Roman Sans serif without decoration --- “serif” clean and simple e.g. Arial A A Serif Sans serif

2.1.1 Typeface (Cont’d) Find two others fonts that are Serif and two that are Sans Serif. Book Antiqua, Courier Arial, Tahoma

2.1.3 Font Style Boldface Shadow Italics Emboss Underline Engrave Bold, italic and underline are common type styles of a font. Boldface Shadow Italics Emboss Underline Engrave Different font styles for Times New Roman

2.1.4 Font Size Font sizes are usually expressed in points. One point is about 1/72 inch. Font size (in points) Font

2.1 Different Text Attributes Font Size On web pages, font sizes are specified either on, an absolute scale of 1 to 7, or a relative scale of -1 to +7

2.2 Text Layout Text Layout Alignment The arrangement of text in a document Alignment

2.2 Text Layout Line spacing single line spacing 1.5 line spacing double line spacing

02-17 In using a word processor, which of the following may affect the number of lines in a document? Changing the margins of the document Changing the line spacing Changing the justification of the text Underlining the text

Activity Make a Poster using MS Word (A4 size, 1 page) Your poster should include as much text format as possible. Your poster should include some photos. Submit your poster to Mr. Lam’s netdrive account.

2.3 Different Text File Formats

2.3 Different Text File Formats Plain Text File (TXT) contains only ASCII characters little or no page formatting codes Notepad

2.3 Different Text File Formats Word Processing Document (DOC) produced by Microsoft word processor contain plain text together with formatting codes Microsoft Word Document (DOC) OpenOffice document (ODT) www.openoffice.org

2.3 Different Text File Formats Rich Text Format (RTF) exchange documents across different platforms preserve all (most) formatting features at the same time

2.3 Different Text File Formats Portable Document Format (PDF) preserve all the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of the source document. For sharing documents Difficult to edit Smaller file size

2.3 Different Text File Formats HTML Document Can be created using Web authoring software Word processors Notepad To view the document, use browsers such as Internet Explorer Netscape Browser FireFox

2.4 Conversions of Text File Formats Word processor File type Microsoft Word OpenOffice.org 2.0 Writer Plain Text File (TXT) Import  Export Word Processing Document (DOC) Rich Text Format (RTF) Portable Document Format (PDF) HTML Document (HTML)

2.4 Conversions of Text File Formats Word processor File type WordPad Notepad PDF995 Suite Plain Text File (TXT) Import  Export Word Processing Document (DOC) Rich Text Format (RTF) Portable Document Format (PDF) HTML Document (HTML)

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