ON THE INCLUSION AND PLACEMENT OF DOCUMENTATION GRAPHICS IN COMPUTER TYPESETTING

Abstract

Computer typesetting systems can produce high quality printed pages suitable for the production of books, journals, and newspapers in final form. Little effort to date has been applied to the problem of including and placing arbitrary graphic figures within processed text. In this paper we describe a system, constructed around existing typesetting software, which allows figure definition and placement. Key features of the system are a wide range of figure sources; figure preview facilities; figures-only output and compatibility with non-graphic printing devices, where figures are plotted separately; support of a figure language for in-line figure definition; and figure placement algorithms which are changeable at the user level.