meaning of foldoc

1. FOLDOC Free On-line Dictionary of Computing followup On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting as opposed to a reply, which goes by e-mail rather than being broadcast. Followups include the ID of the parent message in their headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present Usenet news in "conversation" sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See thread. [Jargon File] font A set of glyphs images representing the characters from some particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap in a bitmap font or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas an outline font. There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc. s PostScript font definitions and Apples TrueType. Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print them. [Other types of font?]

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