Finally, dropping prices of home computers like the Commodore 64 had caused many to believe that buying a home computer was a better investment because it provided more detailed gameplay and could be used for other purposes such as word processing.

With open software specifications and the possibility of software licensing, new opportunities arose for software tools that then became the de facto standard, such as DOS for operating systems, but also various proprietary word processing and spreadsheet programs.

At the turn of the millennium, the line between a graphing calculator and a handheld computer was not always clear, as some very advanced calculators such as the TI-89, the Voyage 200 and HP-49G could differentiate and integrate functions, solve differential equations, run word processing and PIM software, and connect by wire or IR to other calculators / computers.

* Dimension: another word for " system " from on-line analytical processing ( e. g. cubes )

Thus, many typical household applications already in existence like word processing and email were designed specifically to avoid using floating point operations.

Flare were specifically aiming their machine at the gaming market, eschewing such features as 80 column text display ( considered the requisite for business applications such as word processing ) in favour of faster graphics handling.

Academic institutions are subscribing to electronic journals databases, providing research and scholarly writing software, and usually provide computer workstations or computer labs for students to access journals, library search databases and portals, institutional electronic resources, internet access, and course-or task-related software ( i. e. word processing and spreadsheet software ).

* A sign up sheet for reserving computers with Internet access, or word processing software.

The Amstrad PCW's bundled word processing software, LocoScript, used the term " in limbo " to refer to files which had been deleted but which could still be restored, a concept similar to that later implemented by the Trash in the Apple Macintosh and the Recycle Bin in Microsoft Windows 95.

Multimate International developed the core word processing software and utilities ( file conversion, printer drivers ), but purchased and adapted sub-programs for spelling and grammar checking, list management, outlining and print-time incorporation of graphics in word processing documents ( MultiMate GraphLink ).

The last version of MultiMate was packaged with many of these add-on programs under the product name " MultiMate Advantage " to compete with other word processor software of the day, especially IBM DisplayWrite for DOS, which Multimate International developers saw as their main competition in the business market, and to a lesser extent WordPerfect, the DOS incarnation of Microsoft Word and the Samna word processor, which had its roots in another office word processing computer.

Software companies have developed PDA programs to meet the instructional needs of educational institutions, such as dictionaries, thesauri, word processing software, encyclopedias, and digital lesson planners.

Traditionally, requirements are specified in requirements documents ( e. g. using word processing applications and spreadsheet applications ).

Other uses for SVG include embedding for use in word processing ( e. g. with LibreOffice ) and desktop publishing ( e. g., Scribus ), plotting graphs ( e. g., gnuplot ), and importing paths ( e. g., for use in GIMP or Blender ).

Speech recognition applications include voice user interfaces such as voice dialing ( e. g., " Call home "), call routing ( e. g., " I would like to make a collect call "), domotic appliance control, search ( e. g., find a podcast where particular words were spoken ), simple data entry ( e. g., entering a credit card number ), preparation of structured documents ( e. g., a radiology report ), speech-to-text processing ( e. g., word processors or emails ), and aircraft ( usually termed Direct Voice Input ).

Despite the high level of integration with word processing in general personal computing.

In this regard, thin clients work well for basic office applications such as spreadsheets, word processing, data entry, and so forth.

* Literary Machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom ( 1981 ), Mindful Press, Sausalito, California ; publication dates as listed in the 93. 1 ( 1993 ) edition: 1980 – 84, 1987, 1990 – 93

Previously, IBM had offered the UCSD p-System as an option for Displaywriter, an 8086-based dedicated word processing machine ( not to be confused with IBM's DisplayWrite word processing software.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

These capabilities were once associated only with desktop publishing, but are now common in the simplest word processor.

Typically, desktop publishing programs allowed users to import text that was written using a text editor or word processor.

In modern usage the word " desktop " usually refers to tower cases that are in fact more often located on the floor under the desk than on a desk.

However, word processing software has evolved to include some, though by no means all, capabilities previously available only with professional printing or desktop publishing.

While desktop publishing software still provides extensive features necessary for print publishing, modern word processors now have publishing capabilities beyond those of many older DTP applications, blurring the line between word processing and desktop publishing.

The pilcrow is used in desktop publishing software such as desktop word processors and page layout programs to mark the presence of a carriage return control character at the end of a paragraph.

It can also be viewed as the audio / video equivalent of word processing, which is why it is called desktop video editing in the consumer space.

For example, a desktop publishing system might send some text to a word processor or a picture to a bitmap editor using OLE.

Originally created by the company Aldus for use with what was then called " desktop publishing ", the TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications.

New Desk Accessories were small programs ranging from a calculator to simple word processors that could be used while running any standard desktop application.

Also, as time went on more and more so-called desktop publishing features were added to popular word processing software, probably reducing the market for such a low-end desktop publishing program.

In addition to many multimedia specific programs, dyne: bolic also provides word processors and common desktop computing tools.

Because typographic terminology had not yet spread through widespread use of desktop publishing and word processing software, these jokes were easily missed by the general public, and many readers were fooled.

In contrast to the dedicated OMR device, desktop OMR software allows a user to create their own forms in a word processor and print them on a laser printer.

This was to limit the problem of having word processor and desktop publisher software be required to interpret all known graphics formats.

The intent was to have a universal storable and interchangeable document structure that would not go out of date and could be used by any word processor or desktop publisher.

This technique was very widespread for lettering and other elements before the advent of the computer techniques of word processing and desktop publishing.

Following the band's breakup, Rollins established the record label and publishing company 2. 13. 61 to release his spoken word albums, as well as forming the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 until 2003, and during 2006.

He says that his style is so distinctive and unchanging that ' every word doth almost tell my name ,' implying that his name is otherwise concealed – at a time when he is publishing long poems under the name William Shakespeare.

Since 2009, Sentinel has offered a machine described as a word processor, but in actuality it is more accurately a highly specialised microcomputer, used for accounting and publishing.

In the United States there are no industrywide standards and a survey of inhouse guides of 16 US daily newspapers showed that only three mentioned the word suicide and none gave guidelines about publishing the method of suicide.

Desktop publishing methods provides more control over design, layout, and typography than word processing does.

In publishing, the word " art " also indicates photographs.

Where Greenberg used the German word kitsch to describe the antithesis of avant-garde culture, members of the Frankfurt School coined the term mass culture to indicate that this bogus culture is constantly being manufactured by a newly emerged Culture industry ( comprising commercial publishing houses, the movie industry, the record industry, the electronic media ).

Throughout the entirety of House of Leaves ( even including the cover and publishing information ), the word " house " is colored blue ( gray for non-color editions of the book and light gray for red editions ), as in < span style =" color :# 6086d1 ;"> house </ span >, and is, in many places in the book, offset from the rest of the text in different directions at different times.