Technical Typography Using Personal Computers

摘要

Technical typography is fully within the capabilities of the personal computer. Two software packages seemed best able to meet our requirements: EXACT and PC TeX. This report describes the installation, use, capabilities, and results of these packages. Although both packages produce very good results, EXACT is, by far, the more suitable of the two for technical typesetting by general users. This program can answer most publication requirements. PC TeX is more appropriate for users involved in publishing technical manuscripts, who require the highest quality of technical typography. General users willing to expend the necessary time and effort to master PC TeX will find that outstanding results can be obtained. Both packages are acceptably fast when outputting to a laser printer, but only EXACT's draft mode is acceptable, in terms of speed, for generating output on a dot-matrix printer. Keywords: Computer programs; Typography. (kt)