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Aucb.273 fa.editor-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Tue Jan 12 15:09:05 1982 Document Formatting Systems: Survey, Concepts, and Issues >From Furuta@WASHINGTON Wed Jan 6 13:46:43 1982 Here is the abstract of a recent technical report which may be of interest to you Editor-People. ---------- Document Formatting Systems: Survey, Concepts and Issues Richard Furuta, Jeff Scofield, and Alan Shaw

University of Washington, Department of Computer Science Technical Report 81-10-01 October, 1981 (87 pages)

Abstract

Formatting systems are concerned with the physical layout of a document for hard and soft copy media. This paper characterizes the formatting problem and its relation to other aspects of document processing, describes and evaluates several representative and seminal systems, and discusses some issues and problems relevant to future systems. The emphasis is on topics related to the specification of document formats; these include the underlying document and processing models, functions performed by a formatter, the formatting language and user interface, variety of document objects, the integration of formatters with other document processing tasks, and implementation questions.

Keywords and Phrases: formatters, document preparation, editors, text manipulation, word processing. --------------- University of Washington Computer Science Technical Reports are available by U.S. Mail (sorry, no ARPAnet address) from: Ann Greene Publications Coordinator Department of Computer Science, FR-35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Only a limited number of copies are available. Copies are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. They ask that you not request more than one copy of a Technical Report. There may be a $10.00 copying charge if the supply is gone. In any case, they will notify you by mail before charging you so you can cancel the order if you want.

Incidentally, some of you may not feel up to reading an 87 page long technical report. In that case, you might want to request the older extended abstract of the paper which is only 7 pages long. If it is still available, you can get one by asking for "Document Formatting Systems: Survey, Concepts, and Issues [Extended Abstract], TR 80-10-02, October 1980. Write to the same address as that given above.

My ARPAnet address is Furuta@Washington. On uucp, I am ucbvax!lbl-unix!uw-beaver!furuta. Jeff Scofield is Jeff@Washington or ucbvax!lbl-unix!uw-beaver!jeff.

--Rick -------

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