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- Using MaxThink in hypertext construction <sum07 1 6>
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- I use the MaxThink outline/idea processor for many of the
- hypertext construction processes.
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- MaxThink goes beyond conventional outline programs in the
- following ways:
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- │ Many ways to move information aiding various thinking styles │
- │ Many ways to display information to shift perception │
- │ Does this with text as well as with files, graphics │
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- These capabilities are important to hypertext. For example:
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- Hypertext node The Alt-I and F4 commands make MaxThink an excellent
- management organizer and manipulator of the files or nodes that make up
- ========== a hypertext system.
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- Building The MaxThink commands useful in classifying the information
- taxonomies in ways that quickly build hierarchies. Of course, these
- ========== processes are also central in hypertext construction.
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- Networks Besides the obvious hypertext explanatory jumps between
- construction units of information, good hypertext also centers on
- ============ transitive links. For hypertext jump production, I use three
- programs that automatically build transitive links from
- MaxThink files (PERM, M2H, and M2A).
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- Philosophy Perhaps even more important than the commands of MaxThink is
- ========== the philosophy behind it -- how to use structure for improved
- communication, perception, understanding, or representing
- knowledge -- key hypertext issues covered in MaxThink's manual.
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- Utilities Finally, many of the utilities of HyperLink <link27> use the
- ========= MaxThink file format such as:
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- │ REFALL Produces a MaxThink format file showing all │
- │ hypertext jumps within all files in a directory │
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- │ IC Integrity Checker program uses the MaxThink │
- │ format as a means to validate all hypertext │
- │ jumps │
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- │ PERM Using MaxThink, builds hypertext decision │
- │ trees to create relevant files. │
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