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<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Holmes, Neville</span> (2001) <xhtml:em>Crouching Error, Hidden Markup.</xhtml:em> Computer, 34 (9). 128, 126-127. ISSN 0018-9162</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_2387' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1895/1/Cm1St.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_2387' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_2387"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1895/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1895/1/Cm1St.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />105Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.947101">http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.947101</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">This essay reviews document formatting software, praising some aspects of Microsoft's Word but deploring the absence of accessible markup, suggests Word should be described as WYSINWYW rather thn WYSIWYG, considers computer based chracter sets as typographically deficient, and suggests that markup should concentrate on frmatting and typography rather than on content.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
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