On activating such a link marker a modal dialog presents the descriptions for all links in question. In Afternoon, where nearly every word is a hyperlink, a double click is used instead of the modifier keys.Ī peculiarity in Storyspace is that links can point to several targets at the same time. Then the links get surrounded by a solid frame and can be clicked to jump to the target writing space. They do not distinguish from the rest of the text until the reader presses the OPTION-CMD keys. This provokes a line to be drawn between the origin of the link and the position of the mouse cursor until the user clicks a target. Text links are created for the current selection with a menu command. Images can be placed into the flow of text. It contains a standard text editor with basic layout capabilities. The other component of writing spaces is the text space. A special button in the tool bar – the Navigate tool – is needed to follow basic links. These basic links have no representation in the text space. If also the starting point of a link is a writing space the link is called basic. In accordance with Halasz it is also possible to refer to an entire writing space by hyperlinking. It supports the user in creating different levels of abstraction of the topic and in keeping the structures handy. It offers an additional dimension to classify the nodes of an hypertext. It is rather motivated by the same idea as Frank Halasz’ composites are. Nonetheless this approach does not constrain the graph to a tree structure, because nodes inside a writing space can link to any other writing space, no matter whether it resides in the same writing space or not. This leads to a recursive segmentation of the entire hypertext graph. The enfolded writing spaces offer the same functionality as the top level space. For the main writing space just this last mentioned space is used to spatially arrange the nodes of the hypertext that are for their part again writing spaces. A writing space has a title, a text space and furthermore a topographic space.
The second window shows the text space of the “Introduction” node.Ī hypertext in Storyspace consists of a network of writing spaces. Two of them contain writing spaces on themselves. 2.11 The main writing space for the Storyspace hyperdocument “Cleavings” contains four writing spaces. Another source is the user manual Getting Started with Storyspace for Macintosh 1.5. The discussion in this section is based on his paper Storyspace as a hypertext system for writers and readers of varying ability. Michael Joyce is also, together with Mark Bernstein, co-developer of Storyspace. Afternoon is an established classic in the new literary genre of hypertext fiction. It is composed of 539 nodes and more than 900 links. Michael Joyce wrote the first electronic hypertext novel Afternoon, a story with Storyspace in 1990. In Vision and Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces
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