Concept
Text (literary theory)
Overview
object that can be "read" by reader; result of writing
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He argued that these grammars correspond to different models of text that different developers have. For example, one implicit model of the text is that there is no internal structure, but just one thing after another, a few characters and then perhaps a start-title command, and then a few more characters and an end-title command. SPERBERG-McQUEEN also distinguished several kinds of text that have a sort of…
Library of Congress, Workshop on Electronic Texts
The chapter “SESSION V. APPROACHES TO PREPARING ELECTRONIC TEXTS” is titled for Text; names Text several times.
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. A superscript is denoted by ^{x}. For example, y^{4} indicates y to the power 4. A subscript is denoted by {x}. For example, a{ik} indicates the ik-th element of array a. Algebraic expressions in the original text usually had the variables in italic.
Bertrand Russell, An essay on the foundations of geometry
Names Text several times; states what Text is.
A few obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. Let this Book be Printed. _Roger L’Estrange._ Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Peloponnesian Warre. First described in _Greek_ by _Thucydides_; Then in _Latin_ by…
Thomas Sprat, The Plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre
Names Text several times; states what Text is.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Deconstruction.