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Aucbvax.5144 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people Thu Nov 12 09:53:55 1981 editing and seeing what you get >From JWALKER@BBNA Thu Nov 12 09:17:05 1981 Sometimes a simple solution to a difficult problem works almost as well as a difficult solution to a difficult problem.

I've heard of a system in use in a local computer company for handling final page layout of files containing typesetter output. This runs on a standard 24X80 ASCII terminal. What you see on the screen is a representation of the page. The first few words of each paragraph appear (for orienting yourself to the galleys) and the rest is only schematic. You have rows of dots indicating the lengths of the lines (for unjustified stuff, natch). There are commands for moving text around, moving figures relative to text, (changing line layout I think), and the other kinds of things you need to do in final "tuning" of output. The editing commands operate on the screen display and also on the file that contains the typesetter final output.

Thus demonstrating that you don't need the ultimate in bit-mapped hardware to do complex editing work. People are somewhat quick to assume that if all you have is a "monospaced" terminal, you can't @i[really] appreciate fancy output devices.

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