The development of a prototype formatter for telephone-directory pages, written in TeX and using fonts made with Metafont, is described. The formatter was used to decide the detailed typography of directory entries. Issues connected with the markup language used in the directory data files are discussed.
@article{CG_1998___28-29_283_0, author = {Southall, Richard}, title = {Prototyping {Telephone-directory} {Pages} with {TeX}}, journal = {Cahiers GUTenberg}, pages = {283--294}, publisher = {Association GUTenberg}, number = {28-29}, year = {1998}, language = {en}, url = {http://www.numdam.org/item/CG_1998___28-29_283_0/} }
Southall, Richard. Prototyping Telephone-directory Pages with TeX. Cahiers GUTenberg, Actes de la Xe conférence TeX européenne, Saint-Malo, mars 1998, no. 28-29 (1998), pp. 283-294. http://www.numdam.org/item/CG_1998___28-29_283_0/