This panel is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Group on Professional Communications. It is intended as an open discussion; we are restricting ourselves to technical composition and especially the problem of the composition of mathematics. I am going to ask each of our panelists to make a few statements about their views of “the problem.” When these are complete, we expect and hope that you will participate in the discussion. Today's objectives are to add (possibly) one more straw to the pile, in the hope that someone, somewhere, someday will be able to set a page of mathematics for $10 “as it used to be.”

A case history of how one technical publication is attempting to find technical means for solving some of its composing problems is given herein. The author presents the beginning use of technology, particularly automation, as an example of how communicators may be able to bridge the gap between themselves and the technologists.