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$\star$Arabic Word Processing, Joseph D. Becker,
{\it Communications of the ACM}, July 1987, 30(7),
pp. 600--610.

Using the Xerox {\it Viewpoint Documentor}, which
is capable of handling text in any intermixture
of the world's scripts, this article describes
and discusses many of the problems associated with
the various forms of Arabic.

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$\star$Word Division in Spanish, Jos\'e A. Ma\~nas,
{\it Communications of the ACM}, July 1987, 30(7),
pp. 612--616.

Strangely, this only references the 1979 \TeX\ \&
\MF\ book, and does not mention Liang's algorithm.
But the good news is that Spanish has a rigid
lexical structure which allows a rule-based
hyphenation to be wholly successful.

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$\star$Typesetting with {\sc \TeX tures}: a Review,
Sak Wath\-an\-asin, {\it Apple 2000}, October 1987,
2(5), 68--72.

A provoking and interesting review which seeks to put {\sc \TeX tures}
in its place in the Macintosh world. Many of his
comments are applicable to \TeX.

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$\star${\sc daphne} (Document Application Processing in
a Heterogeneous Network Environment) --- an Implementation
Based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language
\SGML, Craig Smith, {\it \SGML\ Users' Group
Bulletin},  1986, 1(2), 75--82.

Besides competing for the longest article title,
it describes the implementation of {\sc  daphne},
which just happens to use \TeX\ as its formatter.

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$\star$Formatting \SGML\ Documents: Essence and Solution,
Craig Smith, {\it \SGML\ Users' Group
Bulletin},  1987, 2(1), 4--8.

Although \TeX\ (and {\sc daphne}) take something
of a back seat, they are still there in spirit.

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$\star$Typesetting in Context, Max Whitby,
{\it DTP Desktop Publishing}, October 1987,
18--22.

Decribes and compares 
{\sc \TeX tures}, Mac\TeX\ and
Just\kern-1ptText. ``The \TeX book (which) has good
cartoons but is about as readable as a car repair
manual''. Max ends up sitting on the fence between
Just\kern-1ptText and \TeX, and also between   
{\sc \TeX tures} and Mac\TeX. But some of his
examples are nice.

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$\star$The Power Behind The Page, Karl Dallas,
{\it DTP Desktop Publishing}, October 1987,
37--43.

Quite a useful review of some page description languages.
Karl includes \ps, Interpress, ImPress, Prescribe, \TeX\ and
Cora as pdls. Obviously {\it sensu lato}.

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$\star${\it win} and {\it sin\/}: Predicate Transformers for
Concurrency, Leslie Lamport, {\it Report \#17,
DEC System Research Center}.

Just for all those who wondered what it is that
Leslie does when he isn't doing \LaTeX.

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$\star$Exploiting the LN03: \TeX, Phil Taylor,
{\it Dec User}, May 1987, 47.

An attempt to brighten the dull lives of LN03
laser printer users, and to emphasise DEC's
reluctant support of proper laser printing.

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$\star${\sl Page One\/} A New Breed of Page-Making Software,
Gord Graham, {\it Small Press}, June 1987, 53--55.

As you might guess, really a description of
McCutcheon Graphics' \TeX\ front end. One
fascinating quote (out of context, of course) is
``\TeX\ exhibits the telltale horns and feet of
a goat''. {\it Page One\/} seems even more
restrictive than \LaTeX, but equally well, appears
to have a very real potential in the more
traditional publishing marketplace.

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$\star$Book Publishers can turn over a new leaf with
desktop system, Renate Lerch, {\it The Financial
Post}, March 16, 1987, C3.

Does not mention \TeX\ (or {\it Page One\/}), but
it is about McCutcheon Graphics and their ``desktop
publishing system''.

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$\star$Type-X: Drawing a Bead on Book Publishers,
Jerome P. Frank, {\it Publishers Weekly}, May 1, 1987,
30--35.

Includes a description of {\it Page One\/}, and
even mentions Mac\TeX\ (``batch pagination software''
--- how the mighty are fallen!).

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$\star$Book publishers turn  to Page One to save money
and time, Anon, {\it Printaction}, July 1987, 19.

Yet more about {\it Page One\/}. Covers much the
same ground as the other articles, but lays more stress on
its ability to import Microsoft Word. Credits
the success of {\it Page One\/} to Mac\TeX.

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$\star$Rectangular Convolution for Fast Filtering of
Characters, Avi Naiman \& Alain Fournier,
{\it Computer Graphics}, July 1987, 21(4), 233--241.

Centres around the exploitation of greyscale fonts.
This should help to increase the effective
resolution of characters by using grey pixels, on
devices which support that facility.

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$\star$Character Generation Under Grid Constraints,
Roger D. Hersch, {\it Computer Graphics}, July 1987, 
21(4), 243--251.

Addresses the problem of producing attractive and
regular characters on middle resolution devices,
describing an algorithm
which allows
{\it subpixel phasing} to be applied to critical parts of the character.

\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
