TYPOGRAPHY AND ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING


PAGE-MARKUP

Collecting letters to form words and filling words onto lines is the most basic operation of any word processor. However, simple algorithms does not offer satisfactory result in laying out the text properly so that it is visually easy to read. Several algorithms were developed recently to address this issue. They are very elaborate and each has different efficiency in solving their respective problem area like line filling, margin adjusting and hyphenating. From lines and paragraph of texts, we move one step forward to the level of page make-up or page assembly. Here, we have to worry about more objects like blocks of text, section headings, figures, tables, notes, page headers and footers. Unlike the issue of lines and paragraph, objects are not lined up as a stream and they may or may not be related to each other.


There are some problems associated with study of page markup:


Updated 18 March 1995