Replicating Archaic Documents: A Typographic Challenge

Typographic sheets and structured documents

SUMMARY Document structure provides facilities for accessing and presenting hypermedia documents, and style sheets support their layout on screen (or paper). However, little attention is given to the quality of these documents in terms of typography, in the sense, for example, of abiding by the rules of the Chicago Manual of Style. This paper shows how the specification of typographic sheets ca...

Modeling Reader's Emotional State Response on Document's Typographic Elements

We present the results of an experimental study towards modeling the reader’s emotional state variations induced by the typographic elements in electronic documents. Based on the dimensional theory of emotions we investigate how typographic elements, like font style (bold, italics, bold-italics) and font (type, size, color and background color), affect the reader’s emotional states, namely, Ple...

Supporting Text Retrieval by Typographical Term Weighting

Text documents stored in information systems usually consist of more information than the pure concatenation of words, i.e., they also contain typographic information. Because conventional text retrieval methods evaluate only the word frequency, they miss the information provided by typography, e.g., regarding the importance of certain terms. In order to overcome this weakness, we present an ap...

Patterns of Blind Users' Hand Movements - The Case of Typographic Signals of Documents Rendered by Eight-Dot and Six-Dot Braille Code

An Experimental Approach in Conceptualizing Typographic Signals of Documents by Eight-Dot and Six-Dot Braille Code

The main research aim of the present study focuses on issues of reading comprehension, when users with blindness receive typographic metadata by touch through a braille display. Levels of reading comprehension are investigated by the use of 6-dot and 8-dot braille code in matched texts for the cases of bold and italic meta-data. The results indicated a slight superiority of the 8-dot braille co...