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Production matters has its own category (three-fifths of box 18 and all of 19 and 20; 2.7 linear feet), divided roughly into two parts: (1) files on the use of computers and (2) style guides for the production staff. (1) Between mid-1982 and late 1983 the project explored, and experimented with, various word-processing and printing systems and, beginning in early 1984, replaced its cumbersome typewriter-generated production system with a computer-assisted system that increased the rate of publication to an average of three fascicles per year between the letter Q in 1984 and the last fascicle in 2001. (2) Between 1983 and 1999 there were so many changes and additions to the production staff that the heads of production during those years, Lidie Howes and Olivia Bottum, decided to standardize, and formalize, the rules and principles of the production process, with the result that they prepared a number of guides and notes on MED style and made them available to the staff.