• Non-printing characters or formatting marks are characters for content designing in word processors, which are not displayed at printing. It is also possible...
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  • In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space ( ), also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces,...
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    but two to three times faster. Daisy wheel printing was used in electronic typewriters, word processors and computers from 1972. The daisy wheel is so...
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  • In computing and telecommunications, a control character or non-printing character (NPC) is a code point in a character set that does not represent a...
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    soon became the market leader for word processors for IBM PC-compatible computers. In 1991, Microsoft capitalized on Word for Windows' increasing popularity...
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    A word processor is an electronic device (later a computer software application) for text, composing, editing, formatting, and printing. The word processor...
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  • a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate where the word boundaries are, without actually displaying a visible space in the...
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  • compared to other languages. The contents include Chinese character information processing, word segmentation, proper noun recognition, natural language...
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  • abilities of contemporary standalone word processors from IBM, Xerox, and Wang Laboratories, Barnaby enhanced WordMaster with similar features and support...
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    such as paper type). Dedicated word processors and WP software for general-purpose computers that rose in popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s would...
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  • formatting is generally retained during the export process. List of word processors Comparison of word processors Comparison of desktop publishing software List...
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  • typewritten text, one word at a time (for languages that use a space as a word divider). Usually just called "OCR". Intelligent character recognition (ICR) –...
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    Movable type (redirect from Type (printing))
    individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper. The world's first movable type printing technology for paper books...
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    Arabic alphabet (category Articles with text in Semitic languages)
    Art of Printing – A Special Section Archived 29 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine, by Paul Lunde "UAX #24: Script data file". Unicode Character Database...
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  • of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, displacing the prior market leader WordStar. It was originally...
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    Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity...
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    tab stop. In text editors on a computer, the same concept is implemented simplistically with automatic, fixed tab stops. Modern word processors generalize...
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    commonly in professionally published printed material.[citation needed] For the same reason, GUI computer applications (such as word processors and web...
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    Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include...
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  • to difficulties in extracting the correct text back out). Similarly, word processors can "fully justify" text, stretching inter-word spaces to make all...
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    that created by word processors or desktop publishing software). Plain text exclusively consists of character representation. Each character is represented...
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  • Hyphen (redirect from Word splits)
    undesirable). The non-breaking hyphen, nonbreaking hyphen, or no-break hyphen looks identical to the regular hyphen, but word processors do not break words...
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  • Printing emerged as early as the 4th millennium BCE in the form of cylinder seals used by the Proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations to certify documents...
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  • the characters is sometimes called overstriking, though overstriking generally refers to printing one character on top of an already-printed character. An...
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    replaced by the word processor, which usually provides rich formatting features that the text editor lacks. The first word processors used text to communicate...
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  • A six-bit character code is a character encoding designed for use on computers with word lengths a multiple of 6. Six bits can only encode 64 distinct...
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  • WordUp is a word processor for the Atari ST platform released by Neocept in 1988. It was one of the first word processors on the platform to offer a true...
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  • this day with word processing systems). The 72 PPI pixel size closely approximated the 72.27 points per inch used in the commercial printing industry, so...
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  • volume of the AN/USQ-20. It had two processors instead of just one. Instructions were represented as 30-bit words, in the following format: f 6 bits function...
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  • ones,[citation needed] word processors have traditionally offered curved quotes to users (at minimum as available characters). Before Unicode was widely...
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