As a composer of electronic language, your task is to use the resources available to you, the resources of synthesis, to build a system that efficiently gets a job done. To set out in building a system, you need to have the following organized:
1. Determine what the scope of the job you are about to do entails;
2. Identify the programs that are available on your computer, across the Internet, or on sale elsewhere, that can be used in combination to get your job done;
3. Work out the method of operating each program, the necessary instructions and parameters you are going to give each program, and the method of interchange between each program to gain the greatest efficiency in getting the job done.
This book is both an example of how one composer went about creating an efficient system for generating text for ebooks, and it is also instructive of how synthesis can be used to get other jobs done efficiently that you may encounter as a composer of electronic texts.