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Hallgren, Christopher
Pansophic Systems, Inc.
North York, Canada
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  OmniMark at work
Travis B., SGML University Press, Englewood, CA, 1997.  Type: Book (9780964960213)

OmniMark is a utility that converts files between different formats, including SGML and HTML. OmniMark uses its own programming language, and the book contains many sample programs that illustrate the different aspects of controlling t...

Feb 1 1998  
  VRML
Vacca J., Academic Press Prof., Inc., San Diego, CA, 1996.  Type: Book (9780127099101)

Vacca provides a wide mix of theoretical and practical information about the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) in all of its early incarnations. This mix includes standards, working groups, software, Web sites, projects, and res...

Dec 1 1997  
  Math into TEX
Grätzer G., Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, 1993.  Type: Book (9783764336370)

Grätzer attempts to cover all the topics involved in being able to use AMS-\LaTeX markup language commands to format typeset-quality output, especially of mathematical equations. By way of introduction, the author states: &...

Dec 1 1994  
  Development methods for real-time systems
Hull M., O’Donoghue P., Hagan B. The Computer Journal 34(2): 164-172, 1991.  Type: Article

A traffic flow situation is used to explain how four different methodologies would handle the design of a real-time traffic light control system. Two of the methodologies--Jackson system design (JSD) and MASCOT3--have...

Mar 1 1992  
  The Reactive Keyboard: A Predictive Typing Aid
Darragh J., Witten I., James M. Computer 23(11): 41-49, 1990.  Type: Article

A keyboard product assists people with limited typing skills or special physical needs, or infrequent typists who forget commands or common word strings in a computer environment. The product works on a Mac, PC, or UNIX platform; it ha...

Jul 1 1991  
  Basic desktop design and layout
Collier D., Cotton B., North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780891342854)

Collier and Cotton use examples to teach the trades of typography, layout, page design, and preprint composition. They profess to aim this book toward desktop publishing, but their technical and marketing knowledge of this field are so...

Dec 1 1990  
  Specifying structured document transformations
Furuta R., Stotts P.  Document manipulation and typography (, Nice, France, Apr 20-22, 1988) 1201988.  Type: Proceedings

This paper is part of the ongoing effort to make markup languages into the universal translator between formats and environments. People who reuse computer text files for articles, papers, research reports, and other documents in a wid...

Dec 1 1989  
  BYLINE: an introduction
Scanlon L. (ed), TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1988.  Type: Book (9789780830629770)

Scanlon summarizes the features of Byline, a popular desktop word processing package. His book could serve as a practice manual and predigested set of procedures for the most common products of an office environment....

Oct 1 1989  
  Active paths through multimedia documents
Zellweger P.  Document manipulation and typography (, Nice, France, Apr 20-22, 1988) 341988.  Type: Proceedings

Zellweger presents an interesting summary of a project at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) designed to focus attention on the hot arena of multimedia (or hypermedia) computer-generated information packages. The Cedar computer env...

Oct 1 1989  
  Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing
Coombs J., Renear A., DeRose S. Communications of the ACM 30(11): 933-947, 1987.  Type: Article

This paper considers the academic text in relation to text processing. In some ways, the view of the authors strikes a pose promised in the myth of truly portable generalized markup languages that loomed on the horizon in the 1960s. Th...

Sep 1 1988  
 
 
 
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