Text Processing and Document Manipulation Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- The Design of Lucida®: an Integrated Family of Types for Electronic Literacy
- Tabular Typography
- A Simple Mechanism for Authorship of Dynamic Documents
- VORTEXT: VictORias TEXT reading and authoring system
- An Approach to the Design of a Page Description Language
- Intelligent Matching and Retrieval for Electronic Document Manipulation
- A Disciplined Text Environment
- Semantic Guided Editing: A Case Study On Genetic Manipulations
- Trends and Standards in Document Representation
- Textmaster – document filing and retrieval using ODA
- Combining Interactive Document Editing with Batch Document Formatting
- Formatting Structure Documents: Batch versus Interactive?
- Advanced Catalogue Production at Unipart
- Legibility of Digital Type-fonts and Comprehension in Reading
- An Overview of the W Document Preparation System
- Grif: An Interactive System for Structured Document Manipulation
- Procedural Page Description Languages
- A Strategy for Compressed Storage and Retrieval of Documents
- CONCEPT BROWSER: a System for Interactive Creation of Dynamic Documentation
- An Integrated, but not Exact-Representation, Editor/Formatter
- An Annotated Bibliography on Document Processing
- Systems used
VORTEXT: VictORias TEXT reading and authoring system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- The Design of Lucida®: an Integrated Family of Types for Electronic Literacy
- Tabular Typography
- A Simple Mechanism for Authorship of Dynamic Documents
- VORTEXT: VictORias TEXT reading and authoring system
- An Approach to the Design of a Page Description Language
- Intelligent Matching and Retrieval for Electronic Document Manipulation
- A Disciplined Text Environment
- Semantic Guided Editing: A Case Study On Genetic Manipulations
- Trends and Standards in Document Representation
- Textmaster – document filing and retrieval using ODA
- Combining Interactive Document Editing with Batch Document Formatting
- Formatting Structure Documents: Batch versus Interactive?
- Advanced Catalogue Production at Unipart
- Legibility of Digital Type-fonts and Comprehension in Reading
- An Overview of the W Document Preparation System
- Grif: An Interactive System for Structured Document Manipulation
- Procedural Page Description Languages
- A Strategy for Compressed Storage and Retrieval of Documents
- CONCEPT BROWSER: a System for Interactive Creation of Dynamic Documentation
- An Integrated, but not Exact-Representation, Editor/Formatter
- An Annotated Bibliography on Document Processing
- Systems used
Summary
ABSTRACT
As the cost of paper and library space increases, so does the necessity for alternative forms of book storage. Computers seem the obvious answer and already much work has been done into various on-line text reading and writing systems. These systems are very effective within their own domains, yet remain essentially for computer users, rather than the ordinary man-in-the-street.
Real paper books may not actually be the best way of presenting information, but they are certainly the most familiar. It seems logical therefore to design a reading system that can be made more widely accessible because it resembles a real book as much as possible both in appearance and use – a sort of generic advance organiser [Ausubel60].
The system described here – VORTEXT – is an attempt to do precisely that.
How people read books
Books are rarely read completely linearly; mystery novels almost are, but how many people let their curiosity get the better of them and sneak a look at the last page to see who dunnit?. A text book is more likely to be dipped-into looking for a particular section, and a journal article tends to be read in full only if the reader considers it useful and relevant after having read the title, then the abstract, conclusion and finally the references [Maude85, Line82].
“The printed article is well-adapted to speedy rejection an inestimable virtue”[Line82]
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- Text Processing and Document ManipulationProceedings of the International Conference, University of Nottingham, 14-16 April 1986, pp. 43 - 57Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986