NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE TECHNICAL AUTHOR.

Computer aids to text processing have become more available, ranging from stand-alone, office-type word-processing devices to large-scale, multiterminal, computer-based systems. Such systems encompass all phases of the text-handling cycle, from text entry, editing, revision, and updating through composition and printout. To help the technical author in the aerospace field become more familiar with the options open to him in automated publishing, the Technical Information Panel (TIP) of NATO's Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) sponsored a survey of computer-assisted word-processing and text-handling devices. This article is a summary of that study.