The planning and representation phases allow for enough information to use templating for expression, which is again intuitive. An intuitive approach allows users to be more directly involved in building presentations. A second generation tool would do a better job. Another strength of registers is avoidance of a number of hard problems, such as finding domain independent sentence generation methods. Registers approach domain independence by being systematic and simple enough to allow good software support for authoring.
Registers also offer the opportunity to build searchable documents.
As a register builds a document from query results it represents the known data, the possible statements, and the order of statements. Thus a semantic description of the document is built. If the description scheme is electronically published, then search engines can access the document content in fine-grained detail. Hit accuracy should improve. The notion of building searchable documents, which I call semantic tagging , is one future direction for registers.