Re: Writing and research with computers

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

Thomas A. Robertson:

You may want to suggest people look at my two volumes _Science in
Ancient China_ and _Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in Ancient
China,_ published last year by Variorum. They contain a selection of
my essays, about half either new or updated using XyWrite. I produced
the camera copy, incorporating complete page layout and graphics,
using XyWrite. I happened to use XW 4.12 in the final stages for its
ease in manipulating graphics, but everything could have been done
with more or less equal ease in XY 4.017. I printed 600 dpi copy on a
Laserjet 4. The point is that, if you compare the new copy with the
professionally set articles that were directly reprinted, you won't
see any difference.

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Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325
(nsivin@xxxxxxxx)