Show Top Desk-Top Publishing on Horizon By Dana B. B Snow Contributing Writer The Horizons Horizon's new top desk-top publishing system is in place and according to Rick Weeks publications vice-president vice produced the Oct 10 issue He said that earlier editions were produced off-campus off using similar equipment According to Weeks the major advantage of the inhouse inhouse inhouse in- in house system is to get more students involved in doing as much of the newspaper as possible Additionally the savings in typesetting costs estimated at annually have allowed him to budget for a a s secretary and one addi tion l com computer puter The news feature and sports editors will design their respective pages under the direction of Stephanie Som- Som sen layout editor This will not only give each student experience experience ex ex- with the top desk-top publishing system but should increase efficiency and result in a more polished tion Commenting on the layout errors in earlier issues Weeks said Everybody has a lot of misconceptions that its it's going to do everything That the thing just works itself He explained explained ex ex- how reducing character charac charac- ter spacing is one of the techniques used by editors editors' to tofit tofit tofit fit a story into the available space and that sometimes this can backfire by running words together The heart of the top desk publishing system is an IBM compatible Compaq personal com corn puter Page layout and design will be accomplished using the Ventura Publisher desktop desktop desktop desk desk- top publishing program Output Output Output Out Out- put is to a Packard Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II printer equipped with the Postscript page page- definition language I Weeks indicated that the equipment and software selection was based primarily on the fact that both he and Layout Editor Stephanie have previous experience experience ex ex- with similar systems During a class visit Weeks invited invited invited in in- journalism students to submit their articles articles' on dis dis- dis- dis kette The ability to accept submissions on computer diskette diskette diskette dis dis- dis- dis kette promises to reduce production time and eliminate transcription errors |