Visualizing the book of the future, one might consider multi-modal integrations, non-linear reading strategies, Internet distribution, and customizable configurations to suit different user/reader profiles. In the first part of this paper, we discuss such concepts critically. The second part deals with a more profound aspect of electronic documents, one which could modify the very act of readin...

Book design cannot be taught; it can only be learned, preferably by critical study of as many books as possible. Of all the elements which make up a book, white space is frequently the least considered and the most important. Avant garde designs are compared and contrasted with more conservative and traditional approaches. Three key elements: uniformity, information and structure are identified...

Dear Editor, We revised our paper entitled " Early invasive vulvar squamous cell carcinoma arising in a women with vulvar pemphigus vulgaris and systemic lupus erythematosus" according to Editor’s suggestions. Author list: the list of authors in the manuscript was written exactly as it is in the submission system, both in style and order. The preferred style was followed Authors' contributions:...

Software visualization is the use of interactive computer graphics, typography, graphic design, animation, and cinematography to enhance the interface between the software engineer or the computer science student and their programs. Although several taxonomies of software visualization have been proposed, they use few dimensions and do not span the space of important distinctions between system...

XML has been proposed in order to bring to the web a markup language free of the shortcomings of HTML, in particular the inextensibility of the set of valid elements (tags). Stylesheet languages have been proposed for XML, in order to provide precise and sophisticated typographical control over the appearance of text-based data. We have developed a rendering engine for HTML and XML documents, p...

In this work, we present the creation of the first Greek Speech Corpus and the implementation of a Dictation System for workflow improvement in the field of journalism. The current work was implemented under the project called Logotypografia (Logos = logos, speech and Typografia = typography) sponsored by the General Secretariat of Research and Development of Greece. This paper presents the pro...

The main goal of this research is to set a group of typographic criteria to suit a wide array of map users. A group of Bertin’s visual variables were applied individually and associatively for the same set of labels. Two kinds of maps (with point and areal objects) were presented to expert and non-expert map users and analysed accordingly. Additionally, the effect of gender variation was taken ...