Text Processing and Natural Language Programming.

A stylized form of English has been designed to express instructions for a computer and procedures are being written in this stylization for a range of text processing problems. Personnel without prior programming experience or mathematical or scientific training can understand the procedures. Features of the stylization are explained and examples given of its use. Potential applications include text organizing and text altering processes such as the disposition of material on the printed page, sequence arrangement of items in a compendium, and revision of continuous text material (e.g. monographs) and compendia (e.g. bibliographies).