What Characterizes Pictures and Text?

This paper addresses an apparently trivial question: what is the difference between graphics and text? It appears to be trivial because there would seem to be several alternative and simple ways of answering it. For example, 'text is made up of letters whereas graphics are not', 'one can create text...

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Published in:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 265 - 273
Main Author:	Biggs, Michael A.R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Sep2004
Subjects:	Computer graphics Computers Electronic data processing XML (Extensible Markup Language) Document markup languages Text processing (Computer science)
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