Randall H. Trigg
Abstract
The author of a complex hypertext document is often faced with the problem of conveying the document's meaning to future readers through a shared computer environment. Two tools implemented in the NoteCards hypertext environment, guided tours and tabletops, allow authors to employ annotation, graphic layout, and ordered presentation when communicating to readers. This paper describes these tools and gives examples of their use. Issues of remote pointing arising from an application in legal argumentation are discussed as well as early work on the use of these tools to support sharing of hypertext strategies among NoteCards users.
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- Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
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The author describes hypertext tools that facilitate ordered presentation, annotation, and graphic layout when communicating to readers. He discusses remote pointing issues as well as early use of the tools. Tabletops support the representation of a screen layout of a set of notecards. A tabletop card can itself be edited and the tabletop—the set of cards and layout described by the tabletop card—can be opened and displayed. Guided tours present a graphical interface to a network of tabletop cards. The guided tour allows the reader to start a tour, go to the next node (with possible branching), go the previous node, jump to a particular node, or reset the state of the guided tour, turning off any highlighting of visited nodes. The author describes on-screen cross-window pointing, which he calls remote deictic reference, in which a separate tour path describes the primary tour.
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