TY - GEN
T1 - Computer typesetting of technical journals on UNIX
AU - Lesk, M. E.
AU - Kernighan, B. W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1977 by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Inc.
PY - 1977/6/13
Y1 - 1977/6/13
N2 - A UNIX-based system for typesetting technical papers for high-quality output was evaluated by measuring use of computer and economic resources. Five manuscripts submitted to Physical Review Letters were typeset at Bell Laboratories, after preparation of programs to handle the equations, tables, and layout problems of this journal. Computerized typesetting is substantially cheaper than typewriter composition. The primary cost of page composition is keyboarding and the aids provided by UNIX to facilitate input of complex mathematical and tabular text reduce input time significantly. Typing and correcting articles on UNIX, with a single experienced typist, is between 1.5 and 3.3 times as fast as typewriter composition. Input on UNIX averaged 2.4 times as fast as conventional methods. The composition cost per camera-ready page using a full-scale UNIX-based system producing 200 finished pages per day would be about $10 per page as compared with typewriter composition costs of $30 per page.
AB - A UNIX-based system for typesetting technical papers for high-quality output was evaluated by measuring use of computer and economic resources. Five manuscripts submitted to Physical Review Letters were typeset at Bell Laboratories, after preparation of programs to handle the equations, tables, and layout problems of this journal. Computerized typesetting is substantially cheaper than typewriter composition. The primary cost of page composition is keyboarding and the aids provided by UNIX to facilitate input of complex mathematical and tabular text reduce input time significantly. Typing and correcting articles on UNIX, with a single experienced typist, is between 1.5 and 3.3 times as fast as typewriter composition. Input on UNIX averaged 2.4 times as fast as conventional methods. The composition cost per camera-ready page using a full-scale UNIX-based system producing 200 finished pages per day would be about $10 per page as compared with typewriter composition costs of $30 per page.
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U2 - 10.1145/1499402.1499562
DO - 10.1145/1499402.1499562
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85053132048
SN - 9781450379144
T3 - AFIPS Conference Proceedings - 1977 National Computer Conference, AFIPS 1977
SP - 879
EP - 888
BT - AFIPS Conference Proceedings - 1977 National Computer Conference, AFIPS 1977
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 1977 American Federation of Information Processing Societies National Computer Conference, AFIPS 1977
Y2 - 13 June 1977 through 16 June 1977
ER -