Tag clouds provide an aggregate of tag-usage statistics. They are typically sent as in-line
HTML to browsers. However, display mechanisms suited for ordinary text are not ideal for
tags, because font sizes may vary widely on a line. As well, the typical layout does not
account for relationships that may be known between tags. This paper presents models and
algorithms to improve the display of tag clouds that consist of in-line HTML, as well as
algorithms that use nested tables to achieve a more general 2-dimensional layout in which …