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- From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
- Subject: Re: Novel navigation techniques
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.155529.2435@mydual.uucp>
- Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
- Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667
- References: <1992Nov15.004816.4084@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:55:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.004816.4084@memstvx1.memst.edu> langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:
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-
- >I would be interested in...
- >discussion, regarding novel navigation techniques in HyperText. By _novel_
- >I mean something other than a simple keyword->link->node path, something
- >other than simple index or 'overviews', something other than simple
- >backtracking or page flipping.
-
- First, a general comment: expressed as k->l->n the only choice seems to me
- to be the character of the link. (I am considering keywords and hot
- spots on graphics screens to be functionally identical.) Comments on
- this assumption would be helpful to me.
-
- Variations in links include:
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- o Glossary function of MaxThink HyGlos
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- -Locate all references to word & show adjacent words
-
- o Aliasing in Flambeaux Xtext
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- -Call a file by another name
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- o Scripting in Apple HyperCard, Brightbill-Roberts HyperPad, etc.
-
- -Change to another independent track through the infobase
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- o Prolog decision capability of Cogent Software HyperBase
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- -Allows use of AI to alter choices based on prior choices
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- o Call another system as in WAIS
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- -Enter another thought space with another organization
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- o Boolean search in Anthony Hursh's Bdexx
-
- -Find a starting point combining two or more words
-
- o See Also functions in Norton Guides and Tom Rettig Help
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- -Menu items that move to related subsections
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- o Call an external program as in MaxThink HyPlus
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- -Run another program and return (slideshow, database, etc.)
-
- All of these variations depend on the support of the underlying engine.
-
- Except for calling an external program, I don't see where I would end up
- except at a node. In fact, I want to find a way to make the external
- program return a node address to HyPlus.
-
- Does this address the point? What else should I look at? Are the
- starting and ending points less fixed than I imagine? Are there links I
- do not know of?
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- Kirtland H. Olson olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
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