ELECTRONIC TYPESETTING METHODS

该项目于1981财政年度开始，涉及收集和编码文本， 电子排版用的磁带。 消除密钥更新， 排字机，因此，厨房样生产阶段，已削减 排版成本是80%。 今年，我们与NIH联盟合作， NIH的出版方法;参加MBI，PC/RT，ITEK， 和施乐设备，以及TYPE-X贸易展。 医学艺术安装了一个排版系统，能够从软盘 磁盘。 我们对PC创建的软盘的测试在这个系统上失败了， 以及与所有类型的非PC文字处理软盘。 唯一的 通过光学字符识别成功输入 扫描硬拷贝。 国家信息中心今年宣布了一个通用编码方案， 标准化组织;在美国标准化组织的帮助下，我们的代码总有一天会成为 转换为这些方法，以适应更通用的格式。

This project, begun in FY81, involves collecting and encoding text on magnetic tape for typesetting by GPO. Eliminating rekeying by a typesetter, and thus the galley proof stage of production, has cut typesetting costs 80 percent. This year, we worked with an NIH consortium to investigate desk-top publishing methods for NIH; attending demonstrations of MBI, PC/RT, ITEK, and Xerox equipment, as well as the TYPE-X trade show. Medical Arts installed a typesetting system capable of working from floppy disks. Our test of a PC-created floppy failed on this system, which works well with all types of non-PC word processing diskettes. The only successfully input was achieved through an optical character recognition scan of hard copy. A generic coding scheme was announced this year by the National Information Standards Organization; with the help of GPO, our codes should one day be converted to these methods, to fit a more universal format.