Word Processing [electronic resource] : An introduction

processes 1 2 Conversion to machine language 3 3 Word-input 9 4 Numbers 1 to 5 in binary code 13 5 Stand-alone system 16 6 Thin-window display 17 7 Scrolling 19 8 Inserting a disk into a disk-drive 21 9 ROM, PROM and RAM 25 10 Magnetic card 26 11 Tape cassette 27 12 A disk cartridge 28 13 Floppy disk 29 14 Dot-matrix printing 30 15 Daisy-wheel 31 16 Reverse-tone printing 33 17 Image printer 34 18 Shared-logic system 35 19 Mainframe system 36 20 Daisy-wheel printer 49 21 Ten-pitch printwheel 50 22 Twelve-pitch printwheel 50 23 A hopper feed 51 24 A keyboard of a typical dedicated word processor 56 25 Word-wraparound-before 64 26 Word-wraparound-after 64 27 Delete-before 64 28 Delete-after 65 29 A quantity, defined and highlighted 65 30 Defining a table or column 66 31 Inserting-before 66 32 Inserting-the text drops away 66 33 Inserting-the new text is typed in 66 34 Inserting-the text closes up 67 35 Centring-before 67 36 Centring-after 68 Vlll XI ## Introductory glossary To help you in the early stages ... Here is a short list of possibly unfamiliar terms which you may come across in the introductory sections. A brief explanation is given here, all are fully explained within the text, and a fuller glossary of a hundred or so such terms is printed at the end of the book. Building-blocks Standard paragraphs used to construct letters, contracts, etc., by keying-in coded numbers for each paragraph. ## Command sequence The order in which keys have to be pressed to instruct the machine to carry out certain tasks. xu ## Daisy-wheel The commonest form of word-processing printer, so called because the printing element looks like a daisy. ## Digital code The reduction of all numbers, letters, symbols and instructions to a series of ls and Os. Fully-blocked A style of typewriting where each line begins at the left-hand margin. Image copier A machine which can produce a copy directly from electrical signals generated by a word processor or similar device. ## Ink-jet A printer which operates by spraying ink on to the paper in the form of the letters. ## Keyboarding The operation of (usually) a typewriter-style keyboard, using correct fingering and technique. Line-printer A printer which prints the whole line at once, not character by character. Phototypesetter A composing machine which produces camera-ready copy for printing by photographic methods. Pres tel An information service provided by the Post Office whereby information from a central computer can be received via telephone lines on a television screen. VDU Visual (or Video) Display Unit-the television screen upon which the work appears as it is typed. ## Work disk The disk upon which work is recorded for future use after it has been produced on the screen. ## 2 A storage process can be as simple as writing a message on the back of an old envelope, or as complicated as microfilming. Distribution can mean anything from passing a note hand to hand, to the facsimile reproduction of a document transmitted from a remote location by satellite. Here are a few examples of the two types of process: Front Matter....Pages i-xii What is word processing?....Pages 1-8 Text generation....Pages 9-11 What is a word processor?....Pages 12-36 What does it do?....Pages 37-54 How does it do it?....Pages 55-70 Who can use one?....Pages 71-75 Who will operate it?....Pages 76-83 Where do we go from here?....Pages 84-87 Back Matter....Pages 88-99