RESEARCH IN WORD PROCESSING ' NEWSLETTER RESEARCH IN WRIT1NG IN A WORLD OF WORD PROCESSING, WORD HYPERTEXT, CD-ROM, AND COMPUTERIZED TYPESETTING: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC REPORT PROCESSING ON THE RISE OF COMPUTER-ORIENTED NEWSLETTER DOCUMENT ENGINEERING (CODE) Bradford A. Morgan Editors Bradford A. Morgan Quill pens, pencils, typewriters, computers-the act of writing has always paralleled available James M. Schwartz technology. Composition itself, the thinking part, continues to be bolstered by sophisticated outline programs, thesauri, access to research archives, and other idea-forming tools. As Contributing writing rises to meet the technological occasion, writers can now think more seriously about the Editors impact of their ideas on the reader: how typographic qualities affect the receptionof ideas, how Bryan Pfaffenberger fonts reinforce mood, how layout influences access and attitude, how pictures work with text to University of Virginia give birth to ideas. As publishing continues to be decentralized, and as software further ad- Tom Carney dresses patterns and structure in a document, those who teach writing are finding a logical ex- University of Windsor tension of the familiar emphasis on writing-as-process which has dominated theories of rhetoric and composition in recent decades. Terrence Erdt Villanwa University Emerging optical-storage reservoirs mean that pictures and sound in a manuscript no longer need to be merely suggested in the forthcoming mixed-media world, and the windowing effect of hypertext retrieval is already calling for a redefinition of the way knowledge is manipulated and TypesettingIPasteup expressed. In short, preparing a manuscript in the information age means fully integrating the Brenda Boyer writing process with hardware and software tools, and authors seem to welcome the challenge of exploring new publishing roles, acquiring practical database and programming skills, and ap- Photography plying fresh approaches to expression. Dave Adams What's new for the mass of writers is the historical uniqueness of being in control of the larger Printing medium of communication. For the first time, a wide range of publishing hardware and software Dick Beshara is within reach of the average author, expanding both the range and process of writing. Circulation Previously, the typewriter-bound author was unable to oversee fully the communication process Jona Cortez all the way to the reader. Once the manuscript went to the publisher, the visual language of the document-the fonts, pictures, layout, and other "idea packaging" aspects that mean so much to the reader-was largely decided by publishing houses. Until desktop publishing, only a few writers could even recognize the names of type families and other typographic conventions. Accounting Manager Sondra Wagner With new versions of software and hardware arriving in the marketplace almost daily, computer-oriented writers are being increasingly immersed in the technological underpinnings of their enterprise. The workstations of writers will continue to demonstrate a plurality of con- figurations, depending upon customized applications in an options-rich but ever-changing pro- Research in Word Processing Newsletter. fessional world. Like the industrial engineer, the writer practicing computer-oriented document Volume 6, Number 5. Copyright @ 1988 by the engineering (CODE) will both configure and operate technical systems to shepherd a manuscript South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. from research-based composition, through editing and further design, to publication and possi- All rights reserved. 15SN: 0748-5484. Also in- ble dissemination via networks or other media. dexed by ERIC, INSPEC, COMPUTER LITERA- TURE INDEX, LITERARY CRITICISM REGISTER As advanced text-based applications and programming merge, many writers have found it and SOFTWARE REVIEWS ON FILE. The necessary to know more about how computers process words on various levels, including how Research in Word Processing Newsletter is memory and textual representation harness the magnetic and optical properties of nature at published 9 times a year (September through the digital and language levels. Research software, using database systems and information May) by the South Dakota School of Mines and utilities, now includes both text and images, allowing for the development of quickly assembled Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota information into useful or prototypical knowledge. 57701-3995; (605)394-2481. Postage paid at Rapid City, South Dakota. SUBSCRIPTION: Overall, the CODE-aware professional writer monitors the evolution of content and form in the $18 per year (US.); $24 (US. funds) per year design of a manuscript or document, selectingfonts, graphic elements, pictures, and the shape (Canada); $27 per year (foreign). Address all of the visible language to be received by the reader. In this sense, the construction of a docu- subscription inquiries and manuscripts to the ment determines methods that efficiently and cogently elicit the desired response from the Editors, Research in Word Processing Newslet- reader, maneuvering the placement of database and typographic elements, and the efficient ter, SDSM&T, 501E. St. Joseph, Rapid City, 5D set-up of the system being employed. Finally, the CODE-knowledgeable writer emphasizes pro- 57701-3995. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for duction in terms of page layout and total document publication. subscription processing. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to RWPN, South Dakota The following annual bibliography is intended to provide a representative sampling of recently School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. published writing on the multiple ways in which words can be processed. Those researching the Joseph, Rapid City, South Dakota subject should also consult my all-different, 42-page 1987 compilation (RWPN, Vol. 5, No. S), 57701-3995. entitled "From Word Processing to Desktop Publishing and CD ROM: A Five-Year Bibliographic Perspective on the Impact of Computers on Writers and Research." 2-RWPN, May '88 Anderson, Clifford W. et al. "Computer Assisted Enhancement of Emo- tional Tone Accuracy in Translated Narrative." Literary & Linguistic Com- Abercrombie, John R. "Graphic5 Display of Foreign Scripts: The Graphic5 puting. 2:l (1987), pp. 1-6. Project at the University of Pennsylvania Has Developed Routines for GeneratingExotic Fonts on Microcomputers, As Well As a Full-screen Editor Andre, J. "GRIP Plus MINT or How to Abide by a Layout-Sheet." PROTECT for Textual Research, for Correctingoptically Scanned Texts, and for Enter- Ill. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Text Processing ing Exotic Scripts into Existing ASCII Files." Perspectives in Computing. Systems. Dublin, Ireland, October 22-24, 1986. Dublin, Ireland: Boole 7: 1(Spring 1987), pp. 43-51. Press, 1987, pp. 89-96. Acerson, Karen L. WordPerfect 5: The Complete Reference. Berkeley, CA: Andre, J. et al. "MINT: A Formatter for Professional Documents." PRO- Osborne/McGrawHill, 1988. TEXT Ill. Proceedingsof the Third International Conference on Text Process- ing Systems. Dublin, Ireland, October 22-24, 1986. Dublin, Ireland: Boole Adrian, Merv. "Major Word Processors Get Better: Minor (and Not-so- Press, 1987, pp. 97-101. Minor) Enhancements Bring Greater Clout and Flexibility to Word Process- ing's Corporate and Professional Best-Sellers: DisplayWrite, MultiMate, Of- Antonoff, Michael. "Buyer's Guide: Desktop Publishing Software. Prices Vary from Less than $100 to More Than $1,000. Some Programs Aren't ficewriter, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Wordstar, and XyWrite." PC Magazine. 6:10 (May 26, 1987), pp. 199-233. Much More Than Toys. Others Provide Sophisticated Typesetting and Graphics Power." Personal Computing. 11:ll (November 1987), pp. "Advanced Word-processing Features Can Fortify Writing Skill." PC Week. 223-235. 4:41 (October 13, 1987), p. 60. "Taking the Pain Out of Document Design: The Latest Desktop Aho, A. V. and R. Sethi. Software: Practice and Experience. 18:l (January Publishing Software Is Likely to Include Style Sheets and Access to More 1988), pp. 1-13. (UNIX operating system) Fonts." Personal Computing. 11:lO (October 1987), pp. 128-135. Alderman, Eric. "Ubrd 4.0: Fast at Last. With Word 4.0, Microsoft . "Writing in a Spreadsheet." Personal Computing. 11:7 (July Augments Its Distinguished Word Processor with faster Performance, a 1987), pp. 51-54. Redlining Feature, and a Powerful Macro Language." PC Ubrld. 6:2 (February 1988), pp. 138-145. "Setting Up for Desktop Publishing: In-house Publishing Pays Off Once a System's Set Up, but What's Involved and Who Should Oversee . Microsoft Word: The Complete Reference. Berkeley, CA: It?" Personal Computing. 11:7 (July 1987), pp. 74-82. Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1988. Apley, P.G. "Automatic Generation of Digital Typographic Images from . "The Original Gets Better: PageMaker 2.0.'' Macworld. 4:9 Outline Masters, or HCD: a Framework for Representing Character." Pro- (September 1987), pp. 150-152. ceedings of the Third Annual Artificial Intelligenceand Advanced Computer Technology Conference. Long Beach, CA, April 22-24, 1987. Wheaton, IL: Alderman, Eric and Lawrence J. Magid. Advanced WordPerfect 5. Berkeley, Tower Conference Mangagement, 1987, pp. 219-229. CA: Osborne/McGrawHill, 1988. Appelt, W. "Running TeX in an Interactive Text Processing Environment." Alexander, George. Editing Books & Long Documents on a Computer. Arl- TeX for Scientific Documentation. Second European Conference Pro- ington, W: National Composition