Computer-Generated Scripts.

This article describes a package for printing computer-generated scripts for Ugaritic, Carian, Coptic, Russian, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew. The system evolved because of the inaccessibility of hot-type sets, the rising cost of hot-type composition, and the illegibility of photo-offset reproductions of handwritten texts. It can be applied to archeological and lexical research. The Egyptian hieroglyph is used as a model because of its inherent syntactical problems, which are applicable to other graphic displays. The system resembles a computerized selectric typewriter ball. The user need not know how to program or understand the languages. The system can intermingle hot-type, roman-letter fonts with computerized scripts in one process. A sequence of operational subroutines to create an open-ended, user-defined pagination system with an intelligent terminal needs to be completed.