1. Word Processing & Desktop Publishing Computer Confluence Revision notes (a compilation of 3 rd party PowerPoint presentations) Panagiotis Kafkarkou

2. Panagiotis Kafkarkou http://pkafkarkou.co.nr Book reference  Computer Confluence Creating Professional-Looking Documents pp.188-9Creating Professional-Looking Documents pp.188-9 Processing Words with Speech pp. 186Processing Words with Speech pp. 186 Spelling Checkers and Grammar and Style Checkers pp. 183-4Spelling Checkers and Grammar and Style Checkers pp. 183-4 Bits, Bytes and Buzzwords pp.79-81 and Representing the World's Languages p. 80Bits, Bytes and Buzzwords pp.79-81 and Representing the World's Languages p. 80

3. Panagiotis Kafkarkou http://pkafkarkou.co.nr Computer Confluence Chapter 5 Emerging Word Tools  Processing handwritten words  Processing words with software that can reliably recognize human speech  Anticipating a writer’s needs, acting as an electronic editor or co-author © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

4. Panagiotis Kafkarkou http://pkafkarkou.co.nr Computer Confluence Chapter 5 The Desktop Publishing Story  Creating Professional-looking Documents  Rules of Thumb:  Plan before you publish.  Use appropriate fonts.  Don’t go style-crazy.  View your document through your reader’s eyes.  Learn from the masters.  Know your limitations.  Remember the message: “The purpose of publishing is communication; don’t try to use technology to disguise the lack of something to communicate.” © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

5. Panagiotis Kafkarkou http://pkafkarkou.co.nr Computer Confluence Chapter 5 The Wordsmith’s Toolbox  Synonym Finders  A computerized thesaurus can provide instantaneous feedback for synonyms © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

6. Panagiotis Kafkarkou http://pkafkarkou.co.nr Computer Confluence Chapter 5 The Wordsmith’s Toolbox  Spelling Checkers  Compare words in your document with words in a disk-based dictionary  Words might be flagged, but you make the decision to ignore or change the spelling. © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

7. Panagiotis Kafkarkou http://pkafkarkou.co.nr Computer Confluence Chapter 5 The Wordsmith’s Toolbox  Grammar and Style Checkers  Analyze each word in context, checking for errors of content  Check spelling  Point out possible errors and suggest improvements  Analyze prose complexity using measurements such as sentence length and paragraph length © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

8. Panagiotis Kafkarkou http://pkafkarkou.co.nr Computer Confluence Chapter 2 A Bit About Bits  Bits as Codes  ASCII  The most widely used code  An abbreviation of American Standard Code for Information Interchange  Unicode  A coding scheme that supports 65,000 unique characters © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc.