This thesis was formatted and printed at Xerox PARC. Multiple original copies were printed on a Xerox XP-12 laser printer, which was modified to have a resolution of 384 dots per inch and was configured as the Press printer named RockNRoll on the Xerox Research Internet. The fonts were created at PARC as 384-dot-per-inch bitmaps from spline outlines. The type families include TimesRoman, Helvetica, Xerox Book, Cream, Old English, Math, and Hippo (Greek) in various weights (regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic) and in various sizes (6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, and 36 points).

The manuscript of the thesis exists as many document files, one per chapter plus ancillary illustration files. The manuscript was edited with the Tioga document composition system running in the Cedar programming environment on a personal Dorado high-performance workstation named Shangrila. Formatting was accomplished with the Tioga typesetter and prototype implementations of TiogaArtwork (illustrations) and the TableTool (tables). Line drawing illustrations were created with the Griffin illustrator and included either as TiogaArtwork illustrations or a preformatted Press files. Scanned images were created by a server on the Xerox Research Internet using an Eikonix scanner and were incorporated into the formatted document with TiogaArtwork.