Expert systems in typography

Electronic publishing systems are providing authors with a tremendous amount of power formerly only available to printers: the choice of typographic design and layout. However, many authors use this power without the proper background, with potentially disastrous results. We have developed a prototype expert system that provides users of electronic publishing systems with the printer\u27s knowledge in computer form in one narrow area of the publishing field to aid them in preparing their publications

CRITAC-

system for Japanese text proofreading This paper describes an experimental expert system for proofreading Japanese text. The system is called CRITAC (CRITiquing using Accumulated knowledge). It can detect typographical errors, Kana-to-Kanji conversion errors, and stylistic errors in Japanese text. We describe the basic concepts and features of CRITAC, including preprocessing of text, a high-level text model, Prolog-coded heuristic proofreading knowledge, and a user-friendly interface. Although CRITAC has been primarily designed for Japanese text, it appears that most of the concepts and the architecture of CRITAC can be applied to other languages as well. 1