Robin Kinross/La Typographie moderne : un essai d'histoire critique

Unicode et typographie : un amour impossible

In this paper we give a new approach to the concepts of glyph and character, applied to the study of the Unicode encoding. After a thorough discussion of these two concepts, we describe the other fundamental ingredients of the encoding: privileged glyphs, character descriptions, combining characters, and properties. In each case we try to show the importance of the given notion and at the same ...

“Un BeL ateLier MoDerne”: the MontParnasse artist at hoMe

“We hear that there are charming things inside, but respectful of the privacy of these ‘homes’ of artists, we have not spoken of them” (L’Architecture 1925: 436). such restraint— more typical of an architectural journal than of the popular press—did not last long. By the end of the decade, even specialized journals like L’Architecture were illustrating the interiors of the homes of artists who ...

The UN as an Organization. A Critique of its Functioning

It has become obvious that the tasks attributed to the UN by Article 1 of its Charter have not been carried out. During the fifty years of its existence, the UN has not been able either 'to maintain international peace and security', or 'to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character'. The number of people who st...

Fontes intelligentes, textèmes et typographie dynamique

The digital text representation model used by the industry today is the model proposed by the Unicode standard. This model, based on the concepts of character and glyph, provides the foundations for the so-called smart font technologies such as AAT, OpenType and Graphite. Using a formal description of Unicode’s text model, the authors compare the three said font formats, especially regarding pa...

aTool: Typographie als Quelle der Textstruktur