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Workstations and Publication Systems

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  • © 1987

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  1. Rae A. Earnshaw

    1. University of Leeds, Leeds, Great Britain

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. General Introduction

    1. A Five Year Publishing Technologies Forecast

      • Ronald B. Campbell Jr.
      Pages 1-13

  3. Page Description and Graphics

    1. Page description languages

      • Nenad Marovac
      Pages 14-26

    2. SMSCRIPT: An Interpretor for the Postscript Language Under Unix

      • Stéphane Querel, Bruno Borghi, Daniel de Rauglaudre
      Pages 27-39

    3. An Implementation of PostScript

      • Crispin A. A. Goswell
      Pages 40-53

    4. Integration of Graphics with Text in an Electronic Journal

      • N. S. Hall, S. Laflin, W. P. Dodd
      Pages 54-64

  4. Documents Structures and Editing

    1. Publication Systems at TODAY

      • John Honeywell
      Pages 65-72

    2. PLEIADE, a system for interactive manipulation of structured documents

      • J. Nanard, M. Nanard, G. Cottin
      Pages 73-86

    3. Embedding Graphics into Documents by using a Graphics Editor

      • Ulrike Harke, Manfred Burger, Gall
      Pages 87-101

    4. A Grammar Formalism as a Basis for the Syntax-Directed Editing of Graphical Notations

      • M. Woodman, D. Ince, J. Preece, G. Davies
      Pages 102-116

    5. Electronic Publishing System Based Upon Dec Vax Minicomputers at the BP Research Centre, Sunbury

      • B. Spicer
      Pages 117-121

  5. Workstations and Human-Interface Aspects

    1. Presenting documents on workstation screens

      • P. J. Brown
      Pages 122-128

    2. Genie-M, A Generator for Multimedia Information Environments

      • Ian O. Angell, Yuen Ping Low, Adrian R. Warman
      Pages 129-143

    3. A Coherent Specification Method For the User Interface Of Documentation Systems

      • J. Preece, G. Davies, M. Woodman, D. C. Ince
      Pages 144-159

    4. A Graded Interface for Novice/Expert Interaction

      • Michael D. Butcher
      Pages 160-168

    5. The Storage and Retrieval of Documents in an Electronic Document Delivery/Exchange Service for Academic Institutions

      • L. A. Beddie, P. E. Napier
      Pages 169-175

  6. Languages and Implementations

    1. The Standard Generalized Markup Language

      • Robert Stutely
      Pages 176-189

    2. The Chelgraph SGML Structured Editor

      • Peter H. Cadogan
      Pages 190-195

    3. Components of Personal Publishing

      • R. Whitaker, L. Robertson
      Pages 196-202

    4. Back to Basics Simple But High-Quality Text Pagination Systems

      • Mike Clarke
      Pages 203-211
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Review Office automation and associated hardware and software technologies are producing significant changes in traditional typing, printing, and publishing techniques and strategies. The long term impact of current developments is likely to be even more far reaching as reducing hardware costs, improved human-computer interfacing, uniformity through standardization, and sophisticated software facilities will all combine together to provide systems of power, capability and flexibility. The configuration of the system can be matched to the requirements of the user, whether typist, clerk, secretary, scientist, manager, director, or publisher. Enormous advances are currently being made in the areas of publication systems in the bringing together of text and pictures, and the aggregation of a greater variety of multi-media documents. Advances in technology and reductions in cost and size have produced many 'desk-top' publishing systems in the market place. More sophisticated systems are targeted at the high end of the market for newspaper production and quality color output. Outstanding issues in desk-top publishing systems include interactive editing of structured documents, integration of text and graphics, page description languages, standards, and the human-computer interface to documentation systems. The latter area is becoming increasingly important: usability by non-specialists and flexibility across application areas are two current concerns. One of the objectives of current work is to bring the production of high quality documents within the capability of naive users as well as experts.

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  • University of Leeds, Leeds, Great Britain

    Rae A. Earnshaw

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