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CypherText: an extensible composing and typesetting language

Published: 17 November 1970 Publication History

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CypherText is a programming language designed for text formatting and typesetting in a time-sharing environment. Text to be formatted or typeset is input on a terminal and may be output at the terminal or on various typesetting machines.

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G M Berns Description of FORMAT, a text processing language Coram of the ACM Vol 12 3 March 1969 pp 141--146
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TEXT360: Introduction and reference manual Form C35-0002 IBM Technical Publications Dept White Plains N Y March 1969
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Harris Composition System: Language manual Harris-Intertype Corp Cleveland Ohio March 1970
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Textran-2: User's manual Form T2-102-3 Alphanumeric Inc Lake Success N Y 1969
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J W Seybold The market for computerized typesetting Printing Industries of America Washington D C 1969
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HYPHENATION360: Application description Form E20-2130 IBM Technical Publications Dept White Plains N Y 1969

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AFIPS '70 (Fall): Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, fall joint computer conference
November 1970
683 pages
ISBN:9781450379045
DOI:10.1145/1478462
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Published: 17 November 1970

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