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	ProText IV
	4th International Text Processing Conference
	   and associated short courses
	Second Announcment

20-22 October, 1987 (short courses 19 October, 1987).
Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA.

Registration forms available in North America from
	Prof. Robert Morris
	Dept. of Math. and C.S.
	UMASS/Boston
	Boston, MA 02125

	telephone 617-929-7976 (7960 if no answer)
	net mail:
		ram@umb.edu	or
		ram%umb.edu@relay.cs.net  or
		...!harvard!umb!ram

Outside North America from
	ProText IV, Conference Managment Services
	PO Box 5
	Dun Laoghaire
	Co. Dublin
	IRELAND

	telephone (+353-1) 613749 (or 611399 if no answer)

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			PROGRAM

Keynote speakers:

J. Collins, Bitstream, "Digital Type Fonts for Text Processing Systems"
R. Furuta, U of Maryland, 
	"Tools that support multiple authors working simultaneously".
S-C. Loh, Hong Kong, "Text Processing in Ideographic Languages"
P. Mackay, U. of Washington, "An Editor for Multi-Lingual Texts"
M. Nanard (CRIM, Montpelier), "Run Time Adaptive User Interface"
L. Trabb-Pardo, Imagen, "The evolution of printing system architecture"
X. Wang, Peking University, "Key Problems in Developing an Advanced Chinese
	Text Processing and Typesetting System"


Contributed Lectures:

W. Daelemans, Vrije Uni. Brussels,
	 "Text Processing Systems with Linquistic Knowledge"
L. Earnest, Stanford, "Making WYSIWYG characters shape up"
J. Gourlay, Ohio State, "Spacing a line of music"
W. Hegazy and J. Gourlay, Ohio State, "A document formatting model"
D. Lucarella, Milan, "Best Match searching in document databases",
D. Manson, I.P. Sharp, Toronto, "[..]TeX, PostScript and APL as Tools to
	Build Data Processing Systems".
D. Mellinger (Stanford and Interleaf) and K. Nitchie (Interleaf),
	"Font Matching with Flexifonts"
L. Price, Hewlitt Packard, "User reaction to an SGML Application"
R. Sauvain, E. Wayman, Xerox, "Typefounder - A Collection of Digital
	Font Creation Tools"
C. Smith, Berlin, "Beyond Document Structure, 
	SGML as a Software Development Tool"
J. Walker and R. Bryan, Symbolics, 
	"An editor for structured technical documents"


A number of poster papers and late papers which will not be in the proceedings 
will be available for discussion.

Preceeding the Conference on October 19, the following short courses will be
offered:

A. Issues in Generalized Text Processing - Furuta, Mackay, Nanard, S. Loh

B. TeX for Scientific Documentation - Bart Childs, with the TeX User's Group.

C. An Introduction to SGML -  W. Davis (IRS)

D. Issues in Digital Typography - R. Rubinstein (DEC)

E. Introduction to PostScript - Y. Perry (Adobe)