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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.

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 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.

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.

An excerpt is presented from an article in "The Times" about an automated typesetting system demonstrated by The Composing Room Inc.