Merops
automatic text-processing tool
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Merops is a comprehensive and extensible text-correction or
XML mark-up solution. Particularly well suited to technical publications,
it is versatile and easy to use. Merops delivers significant
productivity gains and high levels of quality.
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modules
Merops editing and mark-up
modules deal with:
• document
structure
• language
editing
• general
editing
• numerical
terms
• subject-specific
rules
• cross-checking
• bibliographies
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interfaces
Merops interfaces
deliver rules-based automation in familiar user environments, and insulate
users from training to become familiar with complex XML.
• Microsoft Word interface
• browser-based interface
• batch processing of ASCII
files, including XML, HTML, TeX and LaTeX
• colour maps to hide complex
tagging
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integration
Merops can be integrated into
workflows based around various pagination engines and graphics tools, or
can be run as a stand-alone text processor. It can be implemented:
• upstream
by authors or editors
• downstream
by typesetters or back-conversion bureaux
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technology
Merops technologies include:
• COMPILE
language processor
• rules maintained
in code-independent data tables
• platform-independent
Java2-based core runtime
• intrinsic document structure
validation via DTD/Schema
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