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RE: The Question of the Week!

Subject: RE: The Question of the Week!
From: Scott Turner <sturner -at- mail -dot- airmail -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:07:06 -0500

But the technology might change the complexion of your projects (for example, purely linear writing vs. hypertext).


Tracy,

I question the assertion that hypertext is not linear. Perhaps not purely linear, but, using extensive cross-referencing in print documents also would qualify being lumped with "hypertext." The main difference being that you can be taken to your reference by a click of the mouse button instead of manually turning the pages.

We read in a linear fashion, our thinking is linear (with branches), and our documentation is linear. Chunking the data instead of laying it out in a formal linear format is really begging the question, when you code your instructions to access the data it is still formatted in a linear fashion.

I agree that technology changes the complexity, but the change is relative to the medium and to the skill sets required to design and format the production of the document.

Scott
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