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The motivation for this paper is to design a simple but expressive representation for the arbitrary organisation and nesting of text and images in presentations like user interfaces and document browsers. The design defined here achieves this with a single generic hierarchical structure, called a TANGLE, instantiated with two node types, BLOCKs and SPACEs, to carry text and images respectively, and two mappings which represent how text may be framed in graphical spaces, and images may be embedded in text blocks. In addition, a projection function is defined by which visualisations from the structure can be generated. The inclusion of other media types is also discussed.
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Took, R. (1995). A Formal Design for Mutually Composed Multiple Media in Presentations. In: Palanque, P., Bastide, R. (eds) Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems ’95. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9437-9_20
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