
Students Guide to Information
Technology
Word processing and desktop publishing
Word processing (WP) software aims to make the task of creating
and editing text as easy and powerful as possible. In the past, WP
packages did not allow you to use a variety of fonts (typestyles) or
to incorporate graphics into your documents. Desktop publishing
(DTP) software, in contrast, provides very weak word processing
facilities, for it assumes that you will create your text using a WP
package, but it does allow you to use a wide range of fonts, to
control exactly the layout of your material on the page, and to
include graphics.
In recent years, however