  Digital humanities are rooted in text analysis. However, most visualization
paradigms use only categoric, ordered or quantitative data. Literal text must
be considered a base data type to encode into visualizations. Literal text
offers functional, perceptual, cognitive, semantic and operational benefits.
These are briefly illustrated with a subset of sample visualizations focused on
semantic word sequences, indicating benefits over standard graphs, maps,
treemaps, bar charts and narrative layouts.
