Characters, accents, modifiers, punctuation and stress symbols, etc., neces­ sary to support modern Cyrillic texts are considered. The list of glyphs that we present supports all writing systems we know of. The paper also describes the pecularities of several writing systems which are essential for TEX.

In our previous paper, we have proposed a framework for automatically translating tree-processing programs into stream-processing programs. However, in writing programs that require buffering of input data, a user has to explicitly use buffering primitives which copy data from input stream to memory or copy constructed trees from memory to an output stream. Such explicit insertion of buffering ...

In the context of modern western psychologised, techno-social hybrid realities, where individuals are incited constantly to work on themselves and perform their self-development in public, the use of online social networking sites (SNSs) can be conceptualised as what Foucault has described as a ‘technique of self’. This article explores examples of status updates on Facebook to reveal that writ...

Writing is a rhythmic activity. The nature and frequency of the rhythms depend on, among other factors, the disposition of the writer, the type of text, the external representations, and the writer’s tools. The computer encourages new rhythms of writing. The easy ability to make lowlevel revisions with a word processor may lead a writer to oscillate rapidly between composing and revising, and t...

At the time of writing, the author was a modern matron in a surgical division of an NHS teaching hospital in London. This article considers the differences between leadership and management, and discusses the skills required by modern matrons to lead safe and successful clinical services. It also examines three leadership styles - transactional, transformational and situational - and their rele...