The Ugly Duckling No More

Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016 ◽

10.4242/balisagevol17.cuellar01 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Autumn Cuellar ◽

Jason Aiken

Keyword(s):

Page Layout ◽

Xml Document ◽

Ugly Duckling

DITA is growing in popularity as a document standard and is now being used across a range of industries. As DITA grows beyond the scope of technical publications and as businesses become more concerned about branding documents across the organization, the current methods of coding templates to format DITA output are no longer sufficient for document production. We'll explore using page layout software to design complex, visually rich templates for DITA and other XML document formats.

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‘Ugly Duckling’ Sign Could Aid Detection of Melanoma

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(08)70672-3 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 41 (12) ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

BRUCE JANCIN

Keyword(s):

Ugly Duckling

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Manga Shakespeare and Cervantes: Trash or Reclamation?

Comparative Critical Studies ◽

10.3366/ccs.2017.0233 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (2-3) ◽

pp. 155-167

Author(s):

Penny Brown

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Cultural Authority ◽

Multimodal Texts ◽

Page Layout ◽

Don Quijote ◽

Size And Shape ◽

Word And Image ◽

La Mancha ◽

Visual Skills

This paper considers the merit of manga versions of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha which employ the impressionistic techniques of the Japanese comic format to create new, dynamic texts. Such multimodal texts demand different verbal and visual skills to decode the synergy between word and image and elements like the page layout, the size and shape of images and speech balloons and the style of lettering. Far from debasing the cultural authority of the originals by blurring the boundaries between high and popular culture, these versions can be seen as an act of salvage of the original texts from the perceived difficulties of challenging language and content, reinvigorating them with a vibrant immediacy. By making demands on the imagination and intellect in exciting ways, they may also salvage the act of reading itself by encouraging a young or reluctant readership, as well as the already enthusiastic, to explore new ways of engaging with a text.

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XML document information retrieval model based on four-layered Bayesian network

Journal of Computer Applications ◽

10.3724/sp.j.1087.2009.02791 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (10) ◽

pp. 2791-2795

Author(s):

Xiao-long ZHANG ◽

Xing-chen HENG

Keyword(s):

Information Retrieval ◽

Bayesian Network ◽

Retrieval Model ◽

Model Based ◽

Xml Document

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Reading Spaces

The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190917944.013.5 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 74-93

Author(s):

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins

Keyword(s):

Spatial Orientation ◽

Spatial Navigation ◽

Page Layout ◽

Representations Of Space

This chapter examines comics at the level of the page by considering the cultural techniques of reading and spatial navigation. The page, it is argued, is the space in comics where readers locate themselves politically and where, due to cultural and aesthetic conventions, readers may be dislocated and transformed. After first revisiting some theories of page layout in order to diagram how spatial orientation has been studied, the chapter then provides close readings of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi, and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Red: A Haida Manga. Focusing on the diversity of modes by which these comics both serve as and utilize spatial navigation according to paginal design—how they may be representations of space and spaces of representation simultaneously—it ultimately considers how comics and, in turn, how users, both artists and readers alike, activate and mobilize these technical possibilities into emergent forms of expression and meaning.

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