visual display terminal

Japanese: visual display terminal(英語表記)visualdisplayterminal
visual display terminal

...In advanced equipment, conventions for composing Japanese text, such as the placement of brackets and punctuation marks, and margins for inserting illustrations, are specified on a separate tape. The tape is created by a punch or keyboard, and the equipment used for editing and proofreading is called an editing machine, or, since it uses a cathode ray tube, a visual display terminal (VDT). The format of a newspaper page can be composed while editing and proofreading with a light pen or other means while looking at the VDT, and once the format has been decided, it can be input into the main unit, where the characters are arranged on the film at a speed of about 2,000 characters per minute. ...

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Japanese:

…進歩した装置では,日本文を組むときの約束,たとえば括弧や句読点の位置,図版を挿入するための余白などを別テープによって指令する。テープを作るのはさん孔機またはキーボードといい,編集や校正をする装置は編集機,あるいはブラウン管を利用するのでビジュアルディスプレーターミナルvisual display terminal(略称VDT)と呼ぶ。新聞1ページの体裁も,VDTを見ながらライトペンその他の方法によって編集・校正しながら組むことができ,体裁がきまったところで本体に入力すれば毎分2000字ほどのスピードでフィルム上に文字が並べられる。…

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