tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697429285282980308.post5999666541072260905..comments2023-03-24T02:55:57.559-07:00Comments on The Fastware Project: Bookp versus BookcScott Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05280964633768289328noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697429285282980308.post-43884135889238679182008-11-10T02:37:00.000-08:002008-11-10T02:37:00.000-08:00Let me argue a bit about the "single stream of tex...Let me argue a bit about the "single stream of text". This way of creating/communicating knowledge/art is enforced by the physical requirements of paper. A tradition so strong that it still strikes me that even authors that write only in electronic format are still bound by it. <BR/>For example *page brakes*, what is their use exactly in an ebook? bu that's just layout.<BR/>Now consider the "single stream of text", we have hypertext we can read text not as a single stream but as a graph, going in cycles, drilling in, skipping etc. That's not just layout that's structure ready and ripe for new linguistic trick's (see "flashback"). <BR/>And still authors write and think in single stream of text.<BR/>To conclude, if a content is bound by the traditions/restrictions of paper books, whatever medium you may employ it's still a book_p.<BR/>So even when you think that think in terms of book_c you are still thinking in terms of book_p. In other words I believe the 2 terms to be identical.thAAAnoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037469600016519435noreply@blogger.com