Section 4: I've fallen in with the wrong crowd. The following three questions are in section 3: Q3.1 About hypertext/hypermedia Q3.2 About electronic publications Q3.3 About human-computer interaction ![]() The following two questions are in section 2: Q2.1 What hypertext systems I can read about Q1.7 Where can I get copies of the papers that are cited inĪlt.hypertext? Section 2: Hypertext Models Q1.5 What are some historical milestones about hypertext? Q1.6 Is it okay to post about new hypertext software, titles, The following seven questions are in section 1: Q1.1 What is alt.hypertext about? Q1.2 What are hypertext and hypermedia? How do they differ? Q1.3 Is there an archive of alt.hypertext postings? Q1.4 Where are collections of postings about specific topics? 4: I've fallen in with the wrong crowd.3: References to other electronic resources.Linksįrom there jump to the actual questions and answers. Links from the section titles jump to the list of questions. YouĬan probably find multi-part HTML versions of the plain text version of this list at the Take more than 3 seconds to load this FAQ list,īut once it has loaded you'll have all the questions and answers. Of some recent changes and the acknowledgments which are in separate documents). One note about the format: most of this FAQ is in one piece (except for the list I welcome all constructiveĬriticism (and compliments). Although I am solely responsibleįor its content I've tried to keep it close to what I think of as theĬonsensus view on all the topics I discuss. This document is my personal attempt to answer some of the mostįrequently asked questions in the alt.hypertext newsgroup and (Perhaps Eastgate should more aggressively distribute its reader on its Web site?) Storyspace remains used and beloved by a core group of dedicated writers and students, but even a welcome upgrade won't be enough to make it ubiquitous.This webpage and all pages below it appear as a Unless you're exporting to the Web, Storyspace-authored hypertexts can be read only with the Storyspace reader, which is not available on Unix, and is not as widely available as a Web browser. HTML editors are limited, so many, like poet Robert Kendall, have resorted to writing their own programs to give them more control: Kendall wrote the poem "A Life Set for Two" and the Visual Basic program that encloses it. For people who construct hypertexts in Storyspace and want to deploy their work on the Web, the HTML Export has also been improved.īut is it improved enough? Fiction writers and poets trying to invent a new computer-based form of literature are still searching for the ultimate tool. It handles color and images more elegantly, it's easier to trace where various links resolve, and it adheres more closely to "drag" conventions. ![]() The $75 upgrade (brand new, it's $295 bulk discounts are available) is more incremental than revolutionary. Eastgate is sponsoring some of the Web's more adventurous hypertext fiction and poetry, and a new version of Storyspace for Windows, numbered 1.75, has recently been released. But Web or no Web, Eastgate and Storyspace are still kicking. Add to that the overhead involved with presenting such material in computer form, and you're not giving John Grisham much competition. Thanks to some successful early attempts at hypertext fiction that Eastgate published (most notably by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop) and a front-page Robert Coover essay in the "New York Times Book Review," Eastgate and Storyspace were closely associated with the emerging field of literary hypertext.īut as anyone trying to make a living as a poet or short story writer knows, there's only a small market for literary fiction in traditional book format. Microsoft had several abandoned projects, but it was Eastgate Systems' Storyspace authoring system that captured the imagination of writers with one foot in literature and the other in technology. ![]() Apple's HyperCard was the most popular pre-Web hypertext system because of its winning.
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