{"id":20,"date":"2007-06-29T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T20:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minkhollow.ca\/KB\/Blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-05-08T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:34:24","slug":"visual-syntactic-text-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2007\/06\/29\/visual-syntactic-text-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve seen anything really new when it comes to presenting text, but this one looks like it has a lot of potential. Here is a link to the original article (the samples below come from there):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingonline.org\/articles\/art_index.asp?HREF=\/articles\/r_walker\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.readingonline.org\/articles\/art_index.asp?HREF=\/articles\/r_walker\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The technique described in this paper turns this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/BECKER%7E1.SYL\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/BECKER%7E1.SYL\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/BECKER%7E1.SYL\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-2.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readingonline.org\/articles\/r_walker\/image1ri.gif\" title=\"Before\" alt=\"Before\" height=\"165\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>into:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readingonline.org\/articles\/r_walker\/image2ri.gif\" title=\"After\" alt=\"After\" height=\"345\" width=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For online reading this looks like a terrific idea.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-20'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(20);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(20);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(20);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve seen anything really new when it comes to presenting text, but this one looks like it has a lot of potential. 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