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NEW FOR MACINTOSH: Convert Between Font Types 04/19/91 FOSTER CITY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1991 APR 19 (NB) -- Ares Software has started shipping FontMonger, a $99.95 type conversion and editor for […]

NEW PRODUCT: Bitstream Launches Type City Cartridge 01/25/91 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1991 JAN 25 (NB) -- Bitstream, best known for its soft fonts, has announced its first font cartridge product. […]

The article reports that most of the scholars who have used word-processing programs are of the view that they never again want to be without them. Word processing is the major use of microcomputers on college campuses and by using the word-processing programs writers can compose and edit text on the screen. According to William Zinsser, a former professor of writing at Yale University and now executive editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the word processor is God's gift, or at least science's gift, to the tinkerers and the refiners and the neatness freaks.

Comments on word-processing programs. Author's disappointment with Apple's presentation of its new word-processing program, Pages; Observations on Microsoft Word and its spell-checking feature; Thoughts on keys, in particular Caps Lock; Author's discovery of KeyTweak, which allows users to switch the functions of keys around.

Provides information on why adding photos to a business document can be a good idea. How a missing dog was found after a poster containing a color photo of the dog was distributed around the neighborhood; How businesses can use a color scanner and printer to enhance their documents; How pictures can be loaded into a computer.

The article notes some words inappropriately hyphenated which are found in publications as the result of using computer typesetting. Thomas H. Englund of the Small College Consortium spotted the hyphenated word and in the "Post." A reader criticizes the word trust-ee presented in the "Chronicle." Another reader points out the hyphenation of word therapist.

The article presents information on the Electronic Information Delivery Online System (EIDOS) developed by Frederick G. Kilgour, founder of Online Computer Library Center. It would enable people to do research in books and journals anywhere through their personal computers. All libraries using the EIDOS service could include all books printed using electronic typesetting technology.

WILMINGTON, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Compugraphic Corp. (NYSE: CPU) today voted a regular quarterly dividend of 15 cents per common share payable on May [...]