Top Document: comp.text Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: Questions discussed: Next Document: GN2. Which do I need? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Electronic Publishing is an all-encompassing term that means using computers (instead of hot lead) to set type for documents. Although publishing includes a sequence of processes right through distribution, EP tends to emphasize document composition through production of a single master copy. It is helpful to picture a graph with "complexity" along the X axis and "length" along the Y axis. Complexity varies from straight text to footnotes and indexing to tables to line drawings to gray-scale illustration to full color. Length varies from 1 page to 10,000 or more (better make the Y axis logarithmic!) Word processing dominates the lower left of the graph (business letters). Desktop publishing dominates the lower right (advertising layout). Host-based text formatters like troff, TeX and Scribe dominate the upper-left (phone book). Proprietary systems have traditionally dominated the upper right (Sears catalog, encyclopedia); these are being supplanted by hybrids consisting of pieces from the other segments. The middle of the graph is fair ground for everyone but is increasingly the domain of Technical Publication systems like Interleaf and FrameMaker. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.text Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: Questions discussed: Next Document: GN2. Which do I need? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: textfaq@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Text FAQ commentary reception)
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