SettingTablesandIllustrationswithStyleAbstractThisthesisaddressestheproblemofformattingcomplexdocumentswithelectronictools.Inparticular,thetwoproblemsofincorporatingillustrationsandlayingouttablesaretreatedindepth.Thenotionofstyle,awayofmaintainingconsistencyinadocument,runsthroughoutthethesis.Ithelpsmanagethecomplexitiesofformattingbothillustrationsandtables.Thethesisreviewsthehistoryofdocumentcompositionsystems,includingearlycomputertypesettingsystems,documentcompilers,andintegrateddocumentcompositionsystems.Theconceptofgraphicalstyleisintroducedtoextendthemoretraditionalnotionofdocumentstyletoillustrations.Theobservationthatgraphicalstyledoesnotadequatelydealwiththelayoutproblemforillustrationsleadstotheinvestigationofamoreconcentratedlayoutproblemforthespecialcaseoftableformatting.Agridsystemisusedtodescribethetablelayoutarrangementandaconstraintsolverprovidesthegenerallayoutengineforformattingtablesaswellasthebasisforfutureinteractivetabledesigntools.Furtherresearchbasedonthestyleandtableformattingmodelscanbeextendedtomathematicaltypesettingandfullpagelayout.Aglossaryoftypesettingtermsandanindextothethesisareprovidedtohelpthereaderdealwiththetypographicterminologyusedinthethesis.ivp\d g-Wn g '2 g>J;#q;D gr8>oG" (* 29A6 g  "%)0>2O < 3 g;$&,Q/47;C<@1 g  $ (!)-g 58>l@//t gZ  ), 59 >B0-B gK$$g -4;j?+ g %" *. 5= ( gn&()+ 46 ;l>E& g ^#^'2)6 3#6 ?d$y g^2% &y* -05 "F gu !$"& 05<1>A  g 9!$)+/17:> g : ";' -06X;\@ g ;? #'*X/P 7U;k@} g "&). 63;>AEK gk  $&'4+"1.3 9J;\ C gg")+/y2R7q;> g u "$'gs)TVm$ HELVETICA TIMESROMANY TIMESROMAN TIMESROMAN j/[]<>Beach>Thesis>Abstract.Tioga Tuesday, May 7, 1985 9:11 am PDT