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Space- and time-effective segmentation (word hyphenation) of natural languages remains at the core of every document rendering system, be it TEX, web browser, or mobile operating system. In most languages, segmentation mimicking syllabic pronunciation is a pragmatic preference today. As language switching is often not marked in rendered texts, the typesetting engine needs universal syllabic segmentation. In this article, we show the feasibility of this idea by offering a prototype solution to two main problems: A) Using Patgen to generate patterns for several languages at once; and B) no wide character support in tools like Patgen or TEX hyphenation, e.g. internal Unicode support is missing. For A), we have applied it to generating universal syllabic patterns from wordlists of nine syllabic, as opposed to etymology-based, languages (namely, Czech, Slovak, Georgian, Greek, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Turkmen, and Ukrainian). For B), we have created a version of Patgen that uses the Judy array data structure and compared its effectiveness with the trie implementation. With the data from these nine languages, we show that: A) developing universal, up-to-date, high-coverage, and highly generalized universal syllabic segmentation patterns is possible, with high impact on virtually all typesetting engines, including web page renderers; and B) bringing wide character support into the hyphenation part of the TEX suite of programs is possible by using Judy arrays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malayalam is an Indic script with numerous shape-shifting characters. We explore a reusable component-based design for Malayalam fonts, and develop them using METAFONT/METAPOST [6, 1] to assemble the characters. We discuss the paradigm shift from GUI design tools to 'code-based' design of shapes and glyphs, even by non-coders, and the advantages and challenges of using METAFONT/METAPOST to develop an OpenType font for a complex script. Finally, the progress made by our small team is shared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I present a schema for translating TEX primitives to HTML/CSS. This translation can serve as a basis for (very) low-level TEX-to-HTML converters, and is in fact used by the RUSTEX system--a (somewhat experimental) implementation of a TEX engine in Rust, used to convert LATEX documents to HTML-- for that purpose. Notably, the schema is accurate enough to yield surprisingly decent (and surprisingly often "the exactly right") results on surprisingly many "high-level" LATEX macros, which makes it adequate to use in lieu of (and often even instead of) dedicated support for macros and packages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Primo is a cutting-edge, cloud-based authoring, submission, and proofing framework that provides a sustainable solution for academic publishing. It combines the advantages of XML-based workflows that facilitate controlled authoring and/or editing in accordance with specific DTDs and house styles, with the visually appealing and mathematically precise typesetting language of TEX, enabling the creation of high-quality PDFs and mathematical images (offering an alternative to MathML coding). By speaking the widely accepted communicating lingua franca of mathematics and science (i.e., TEX), and utilizing the XML/MathML format for archiving, Primo has the potential to revolutionize the publishing industry. This tool caters to both the author and the publisher, bringing their needs together with enhanced participation of authors in the publishing process. The three main modules of Primo include Authoring, Submission/Reviewing, and Proofing, all of which are equipped with usability checks during submission, a collaborative editing feature, a WYSIWYG math editing tool, and publisher/journal-based PDF manuscript rendering. With Primo, authors can be assured that their work will be published with the highest level of precision and quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The LATEX Tagged PDF project was started in spring 2020 and announced to the TEX community by the LATEX Team at the Online TUG Conference 2020 [9]. This short report describes the progress and status of this multi-year project achieved with the LATEX summer release 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present ETAP, a platform designed to support both demonstration of, and experimentation with digital typesetting, interactively, and in real-time. ETAP provides a GUI which currently focuses on all aspects involved in paragraph formatting. A number of pre-processing features can be switched on or off (hyphenation, kerning, ligaturing, etc.). A specific paragraph formatting scheme may be selected from a pool of ready-made algorithms, and adding new algorithms to that pool is easy. Each algorithm comes with its own set of configuration parameters, and the GUI allows you to tweak those parameters and observe the effects in real-time. ETAP may also be used without, or in parallel with the GUI. While the application is running, the whole programmatic infrastructure is manipulable from a command-line interface. This allows inspection of the various typesetting objects normally displayed by the GUI, and also to perform computations with them, for example, data collection and statistical measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the course of the last year(s), the Island of TEX has received quite some interest in its Docker containers. This article gives a brief overview about our container infrastructure for TEX Live and ConTEXt, including some examples on using our containers in production environments. Last but not least, we will elaborate on some interesting (mostly still open) problems connected to containerizing TEX Live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The HINT file format [5] was presented at TUG 2019 [4], and at TUG 2020 [6], the first usable viewer for HINT files was presented. The HiTEX engine became part of TEX Live in 2022. This presentation will explore the changes that have taken place since then and what to expect in the future. This article will • explain the improvements in glyph rendering in more recent versions of the HINT file viewer; • describe the use of links, labels, and outlines; • present hints on how to design TEX macros for variable page sizes; • and discuss the capabilities of the HINT file format to convert pages to plain text for searching or text-to-speech processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Overleaf has both a Code editor and a Visual ("Rich Text") editor. We recently redesigned the Visual editor. Benefits, drawbacks, and specific issues this editor duality poses will be presented, together with some takeaways we have learned on the way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today's personal computers are designed and sold by Apple, IBM Corp., and others, but researchers had developed ideas and techniques they use by the mid of 1970s. This article discusses nine of those early ideas, the people who had them, and labs where they worked. The personal computer industry had a foundation to build on. The first years were like a fast-forward replay of the computer and word processing industries, assemblers, high-level languages, operating systems, superscalar CPU, and modern applications, were implemented as soon as falling cost allowed. The similarity of today's systems to the Alto, is an indication that the computer industry has consumed much of the intellectual capital developed at MIT, SRI, and PARC. Vannevar Bush, a prominent researcher at MIT developed a device called memex, which keeps an account of all books, records, and communications. Interactive computer bloomed at MIT in the 1950s, beginning with Jay Forrester's Whirlwind computer.

The article focuses on the process of automatically intermixing Arabic writing with text in European or other languages. The predominant language of the Middle East is Arabic. The societies of the Middle East are now aggressively modernizing themselves in the field of computers. Until recently, human interaction with computers in the languages of the Middle East has been hindered by the unusual properties of the native alphabets. Scores of companies are producing computer applications in the Middle East today. A design for Arabic word processing is probably best conceived in the context of Arabic desktop publishing. Automatic layout algorithms can be made remarkably competent; certainly 99.9 percent of all mixed directional text can be laid out correctly by the computer without any kind of directional indications from the typist. The technology of word processing in the Middle East is right now at the exciting phase where the peculiarities of the native scripts are yielding to sophisticated system design. Improved interaction with computers will surely bring economic and cultural gains to the societies of the Middle East, and such developments are bound to hold significance for all.

Evaluates the interfaces of an off-line document-preparation system on interactive page-presentation programs of structured documents on computers. Assessments on the functions of typesetting system formats documents; Procedures on making an on-line information data; Relevance of noninteractive document compilers on the evolution of data processing.

Focuses on the development of electronic typesetting systems. Overview of the history of typesetting; Mechanization of typesetting in the 19th century; Use of cathode ray tube in electronic typesetting.

TikZ-Feynman is a LATEX package allowing Feynman diagrams to be easily generated within LATEX with minimal user instructions and without the need of external programs. It builds upon the TikZ package and leverages the graph placement algorithms from TikZ in order to automate the placement of many vertices. TikZ-Feynman still allows fine-tuned placement of vertices so that even complex diagrams can be generated with ease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An application of computer-aided typesetting is introduced. A working method is described for publishing ALGOL by computerized translation from Hardware into Reference representation, computerized planning of typographical layout and computerized control of a typesetting machine. The point is made that experts in science, technology, and programming are guaranteed a correct ALGOL documentation without spending valuable time and power on typographic considerations and proofreading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the use of conditional formatting in PivotTables of Microsoft Excel. Topics discussed include the creation of PivotTable from the data, the application of non-contingent conditional formatting, copying the conditional formatting to other data cells, and applying the conditional formatting based on a formula.

An interview with Kurt Akeley and Pat Hanrahan, graphics-programming veterans, is presented. Both agree that graphics processing unit has solved the problem with regards to the availability of computing power at the least amount. Akeley and Hanrahan elaborate on the issue of exposing silicon graphics incorporated machines that have programmable microcode engines.

Mathscout is a mathematica 1 [1] mathematica is a registered trademark of Wolfram Research Inc. package to postprocess the output of other programs for scientific calculations. We wrote mathscout to import data from a major program for ab initio computational chemistry into mathematica, so that we could postprocess the chemical results. It can be used to import the output of many other packages that are used, e.g. in molecular dynamics, crystallography, spectroscopic analysis, metabolic and physiological modeling, meteorology and other areas of environmental science, cosmology and particle physics. mathscout assigns a name to each table and non-tabular datum that it extracts. This name is constructed mechanically from the identifier or phrase that precedes or follows or embeds the item in the output that mathscout processes. A selection of non-contiguous items, or all the items in a section of the file, or in the entire file are extracted using simple commands. So far, we have focused on our immediate needs to postprocess the output of the Gaussian 2 [2] gaussian is a registered trademark of Gaussian Inc. program. Calculations on several molecules that illustrate the usage of the package are presented here and in the Supplementary Information. mathscout is shortened to msct in the software. Program summary: Program title: msct.m Catalogue identifier: ADZQ_v1_0 Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/ADZQ_v1_0.html Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen''s University, Belfast, N. Ireland Licensing provisions: Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 30 396 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 1 799 469 Distribution format: tar.gz Programming language: Mathematica Computer: Any computer running unix and Mathematica Operating system: Unix Supplementary material: The Development guide Classification: 4.14, 5, 16.1, 20 Nature of problem: Import data from output files of scientific computing packages, such as Gaussian, into Mathematica for symbolic calculation and production of publication quality tables and plots. Solution method: Provision of mnemonic top-down parsing procedures, functional programming. Running time: The complete extraction of data from a small basis density functional calculation on the water molecule, and from a larger basis density functional calculation on the zinc hydrate ion, that ran to 33 iterations, took 1 second and 23 seconds, respectively, on a Dell Poweredge 1750. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article offers tips on three dimensional (3D) typesetting. It offers a basic example of 3D modeling. It suggests a way to pick a letter out of a video scene. It cites the advantage of a 3D title that is properly designed.

This article presents time saving tips when using the Mac operating system. The AutoCorrect feature in Word X and 2004 automatically fixes common spelling mistakes, but it can be used to avoid repetitive typing of commonly used words or phrases. It can also be used to quickly type symbols without opening the Insert: Symbol dialog box again. In Word 2004, the Comments pane has been replaced by the Reviewing pane and it is available only from the Reviewing Pane button on the Reviewing toolbar. But it is possible to bring it to the regular toolbar. AppleWorks 6 allows users to listen for errors. To add a Speak Text button to the button bar, choose AppleWorks: Preferences: Button Bar and drag the Speak Text button from the Word Processing group onto the Button Bar. Select the text and click on the button to hear it read aloud. When copying text from e-mail or the Web into AppleWorks documents, strange line breaks may creep in. Nisus Writer Express offers a useful feature called Document Manager, which keeps track of documents. One can start all documents in Document Manager by setting the appropriate option in Nisus' General Preferences, but it is easier to go down to the Autosave option in the same box and set it to save every minute. The application will save new documents into Document Manager by default.

The article focuses on the functions of ruler and tabulation stops in a typewriter which can be useful to format documents in word-processing programs such as Word. Topics discussed include the act of laying data out in tabular form by means of tab stops, the use of tab stops for indenting lists or subsection headings to different levels, and the concept of tab stops which formed the basis of a simple document formatting.

Focuses on a computerized typesetting language for scientists. Device-independent files; Pull-down menus of symbols; Scientific word processing software packages.

The article reports on developments in electronic image processing and publishing. According to the author, more developed software and machines enable high quality graphics and typeset documents to be produced using only a personal computer. Other developments in desktop publishing and the computer models equipped with these capabilities are highlighted in the article.

The article reports that "The New York Times" has closed down its Linotypes and switched to automated typesetting and new high-speed methods of making printing plates. Sections like Weekend, Living, and SportsMonday have been added to its national and international news. The editorial and sales staff have also undergone reorganization so that no talent is wasted. With readers and advertisers showing interest in New York, "The New York Times" tested readership interest to small groups of homes in Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan.

The article focuses on the problem faced by temporary-help firms with typists trying to pass themselves off as word processors. Temporary-help firms are having trouble meeting the demand for word processing personnel. But agencies also realize that incompetent staffers can cost them clients. Terence Adderley, president of Kelly Services Inc., is convinced that good word processing operators are in the labor market and the only problem is finding them. So he bought from Kee Inc., a small computer maker, a testing device that functions a simulator. Kelly's 550 offices received the new machines. By switching keyboards and diskettes, they can grade an operator's performance on six of the most popular word processing models.

The article focuses on the Bureau of International Commerce of the U.S. Department of Commerce's report on EDP markets in France, Sweden and Italy, in connection with the Departments Global Marketing Program for EDP. The French EDP market is growing at an annual rate of 20 percent. It is therefore expected to rise from its 1969 level of $387 million, when the value of all French EDP installations was estimated at $1,8 billion, to $900 million by the end of 1974. French EDP imports are also expected to grow from about $85 million in 1969 $30 million from the U.S. to $264 million in 1974. Swedish purchases of $54 million of EDP equipment in 1969 will reach $112 million by 1973. U.S. makers of computer terminals and peripherals now hold about 80 percent of the Italian market for their equipment. Products with the highest sales potential in Sweden include: small and medium scale computers, data transmission equipment, CRT terminals, computerized typesetting systems, and disk memories.

The article reports on the development of electronic typesetting in production and printing processes in the U.S. It highlights the application of computerized typesetting in assembling and sorting McGraw-Hill Book Cos.' "Electronics Buyers' Guide for 1965," a directory of electronic manufacturers. It explains that apart from its savings in printing and production, the new typesetting process is also beneficial in arranging computer-sorted data and making corrections and editions.

Purpose - This paper aims to discuss a computational facility for generating Arabic script with its traditional elegance. Reference is also made to computer analysis of historic Ottoman documents which, unlike modern Turkish, use Arabic script. The paper also seeks to note aspects of ancient Arabic science. An account is to be given of the menace of "phishing" for personal details through spam messages. Design/methodology/approach - The approach is to review developments on the internet, especially those of general cybernetic interest. Findings - The computer generation of Arabic script fills a need that has existed since the beginning of movable-type printing. Retrieval of Ottoman documents is valuable historically and presents a technical challenge. Arabic science was in many ways more advanced than is widely realised. Practical implications - Possibilities for computer typesetting are artistically and usefully extended. "Phishing" has to be seen as a serious menace. Originality/value - It is hoped that this will be a valuable periodic review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents ways on how to create vinyl signs with a computer. Materials for the project; Installation of the cutting blade; Connection of the Stika; Vinyl loading; Installation and configuration of the software; Design of a sign template; Tracing and filling of objects; Choice of a typeface; Lettering; Creation of sign.

Presents various tips and techniques for font management. Choosing between TrueType and Type 1; Managing font menus; Understanding the fonts folder; Font-management software. INSET: Fonts folder tune up..

An introduction to the issue is presented discussing the periodical's photocomposition manager James Cianelli, focusing on the computerized typesetting system he constructed.

The article reports on the move of the "New York Post" publisher Dorothy Schiff to suspend the newspaper publication temporarily when union printers refuse to permit computerized typesetting.

This section offers news briefs in the U.S. in 1963. A line of ultra-pure spectrographic-grade chemicals was introduced by U.S. Testing Co. in July 1963. The U.S. Post Office is planning to start the testing of an air mail extractor on August 1, 1963. International Business Machines Corporation reportedly includes additional automatic operation to its computerized typesetting program.

Lithokraft II Inc. says it is now one of Columbus' largest computer typesetting firms following its acquisition of Spectrum Electronic Pre-press Services on Nov. 16. The combined company, which will [...]

The article discusses the work of typography designer Erik Spiekermann and his typography firm P98a. Topics include the production of display type, the role of 3D-printing in research on type production, and the relation of type production to digital typesetting. The history of Spiekermann's work as a type designer is noted.

Market Trend Impacts THE ELECTRONIC publishing market divides into three distinct groupings: word processing and desktop publishing, office and technical publishing, and computer-integrated publishing. Each application varies in types of [...]

The latest trend in typesetting is expected to be integration of the electronic procedure into the other automated printing functions. The latest equipment available is analyzed along with other automated printing functions, such as pagination.

Publishing Needs Spur Enhanced Word Processing User interest in desktop publishing has spurred the addition of many of the latest features found in word-processing packages. Graphics, side-by-side columns and advanced [...]

Interpress and PostScript Compared TO A FIRST ORDER, PostScript and Interpress are quite similar. What I mean by that is that by comparison with all other current techniques for page [...]

THE DEVELOPMENT and installation of electronic copy processing systems was pioneered in this country by daily newspapers, as was phototypesetting. Full-service commercial printers, trade type shops, and some color houses [...]

Interfaced typesetting: To code or not to code If interfaced typsetting is a bright light in production, then many publishers have become moths. They've flown too close, been burned, and [...]