Offers 10 tips on using computers for newspaper and yearbook production. Offers a list of 13 resources for new and old computer users. (SR)

Describes how advances in desktop publishing, computers, digital photography, and other technology will affect high school publications. (PRA)

Provides descriptions of jobs related to desktop publishing. Includes information on salaries, labor market outlook, advancement opportunities, and education/training needed. (JOW)

Notes several practical ideas to keep the frustrations of desktop publishing to a minimum in high school journalism. (SR)

Suggests that new computer software enables writers and technicians to compose graphs that rival those made by professionals. Suggests that professional and novice users of such software either intend to distort data and manipulate readers or do so out of ignorance. Describes and illuminates seven types of distortion in graphs. (PA)

Offers thoughts on the phenomenon of the underuse of classroom computers. Argues that desktop publishing is one way of overcoming the computer malaise occurring in schools, using the incentive of classroom reading and writing for mastery of many aspects of computer production, including writing, illustrating, reading, and publishing. (RS)

Weighs the costs and benefits of various strategies for converting existing, formatted text into Standard General Markup Language tagged files for all types of source materials. Illustrates the challenge of converting the implicit structure of tables and other common document features. Gives tips for creating a conversion plan. (SR)

Extends the discussion of visual rhetoric to the writing spaces and iconic representations of computer interfaces. Examines interfaces of a word-processing and a page layout program for desktop publishing, revealing the visual nature of the interface. Opines that the visual writing space encourages and fosters a writer's consideration of options…

Although the terms typeface, typeface family, typeface classification, font, and font family are often misused, they do have different meanings. A typeface is a particular design of type. A typeface family is a group of typefaces that have a similar design heritage or style, say, from original work done by a particular Italian master designer. A…

Image scanning technology permits the desktop publisher wide latitude in graphic representations. Care must be taken not to use creative material belonging to others. Teachers can have a positive impact on this problem by including instruction on the legal and ethical issues of image scanning. (JOW)

Provides a historical review of copymarking, a conceptual description of various types of copymarks, and a taxonomy of copymarks used in electronic conversion systems. Issues raised by the development of document interchange standards and conversion systems are reviewed, and implications for future research on documents and document processing are…

Points out that desktop publishing is a metatechnology that allows professional writing students access to the production phase of publishing, giving students hands-on practice in preparing text for printing and in learning how that preparation affects the visual meaning of documents. (SR)

Discusses document processing software packages and describes the TEX system, a document compiler intended to produce high quality typesetting. It is noted that the X-window system provides a windowing environment that makes the system faster, more efficient, and more user friendly, and its use in connection with the TEX system is explained. (four…

Describes desktop publishing (DTP) and its place in corporations. Lists job titles of those working in desktop publishing and describes DTP as it is taught at secondary and postsecondary levels and by private trainers. (JOW)

This article examines how discourses shaped and were shaped by participants' identities in a participatory action research (PAR) project in a tertiary education environment. The primary researcher and the director of the university's desktop publishing team explored the idea of working together to help the newly formed team to develop strategies…