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- From: kurtg@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: Re: Novel navigation techniques
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.173229.2583@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:32:27 -0500
- References: <1992Nov15.004816.4084@memstvx1.memst.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.004816.4084@memstvx1.memst.edu>, langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:
- > What novel, unique methods have been developed for navigation through a
- > hypertext?
-
- Ted Nelson always talks about "stretchable text": You can picture each
- text as a box. If you grab an edge and pull it, making the box
- bigger, additional levels of detail will grow from the text (and you
- can shrink, of course). For intance, your sentences will become
- paragraphs, will become sections, will become chapters, will become
- books, etc.
-
- I've never heard of it being implemented. It sounds a little goofy
- to me --- I'd hate to be the author who had to write infinitely
- descending levels of detail...
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