Beyond formatting and fonts
Joel J. Mambretti · 1982
In the last ten years, major trends in academic computing have included a number of particularly interesting changes: 1) increases in CPU capacity, 2) increases in baud rates, 3) the substitution of terminals for card readers, 4) the shift from batch to interactive systems, and 5) the development of computerized text processing. The development of academic text processing has been substantial in several areas of application. This paper will present an overview of the past, present, and possible future of one of these areas: the processing of large and/or complex texts, a task which in this paper will be referred to as “document composition.”