Part 1 Introduction: assumptions; procedure and goal; sections; the organization of the book. Part 2 What is meant by text knowledge?: definition; text production; text topic (text semantics); text function (text pragmatics); text connectivity (text syntax); properties of the text type; principles of computational modelling. Part 3 Text generation: definition; object knowledge, linguistic knowledge, text knowledge; static and dynamic aspects; text structure and processes of choice; rhetorical structures; text planning in machine translation; text structure as structure of action. Part 4 Text actions: intention and change of context; text actions and text production; structure and process of text production; internal structure of text actions; complex text actions; text action schema (TAS). Part 5 Text grammar I - selections: overview; units of the object construction; interactional knowledge; text grammar and lexicalization. Part 6 Text grammar II.1 - principles of composition: overview; principles of sequencing; directionality as dynamic principle of text forming; text connectivity patterns; strategies of composition. Part 7 Text grammar II.2 - sequencing operations: overview; operations - FRAMING, CHAINING, PAIRING; series of PAIRING; connectivity forms (CONFO). Part 8 Integrated view of the text grammar: the idea of text grammar; design of text production.