Treffer: Electronic Composition and the Typesetter.

The article explains the technological advances that have changed the typesetting business. The electronic revolution in publishing has altered some of the traditional relationships in the industry. Today, computers are the common link between authors, publishers, and compositors. Consider how computers have revolutionized the way authors prepare their manuscripts. Computers not only make revising and rewriting a lot easier, they also provide a way for an author's keystrokes to be stored and used by the compositor. Most of the typesetting systems used by today's compositors can read and translate files from virtually any word-processing program. Some of these typesetting systems can even preserve the author's formatting--the bold and italic and superscript and subscript that computers allow authors to use. At Tapsco Inc. one tries to use author-created files whenever possible, even when copyediting and coding have not been added to the disk. If, however, the editing on the hard copy is heavy, or if the author has sent a print file that is difficult to convert, or if the data contains a large number of elements that are not tagged, then it's usually more practical to rekey the edited and marked-up manuscript using a double key, electronic-verify process. The double key, electronic-verify process is another innovation brought about by the electronic revolution.

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