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The names themselves, along with precise locational data and identification by type, have been painstakingly keyboarded into machine-readable form from the most detailed USGS topographic maps, the so-called 7.5-minute series.
As I have dealt mainly with texts that were in machine-readable form, I have been able to develop techniques for extracting an index from a text, especially if the text is consistently styled typographically.
With the emergence of computer typesetting in the 1960s, it seemed likely that the analysis of large bodies of text from newspapers and periodicals (in particular) would be facilitated, for one of the greatest expenses was the cost of keyboarding the texts into machine-readable form so that they could be processed speedily and economically by computer.
My own observation is that Informal might be undergoing its own round of pejoration -- these things sometimes go in cycles -- and, in a reference book I recently completed, which will be published by Oxford University Press in the autumn of 1991, I have chosen to return to Colloq . As the book is in machine-readable form, should the publisher decide, in a generation's time, to switch back to Informal , the change can be readily accommodated by performing a simple substitution program on a computer, and all the Colloqs will become Infs before you know it.
It is a comfort to know that if my book still merits reprinting some decades hence, as it is in machine-readable form, the publishers need only write a short program indicating that informal be substituted for all occurrences of colloquial and, like magic, the switch will be effected.
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