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
-------

-----------------------------------------------------------------
 gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
 of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/


This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:

1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.

2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 
 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.