hyperfiction

[Matthew P Wiener]

>2. To gain access to footnotes, critiques, reviews, and glosses on the
>basic text. In principal, every commentary on GR, for example, could
>be linked, cross-linked, and available to readers. Sort of a super
>version of Weisenberger's "Companion."

>(The advantages for scientific research, let alone other types of
>research, should be clear.)

For what it's worth, today's New York Times business section has an
article on Encyclopedia Britannica going hypertextual.  UCSD has been
beta testing it, and it should be available to universities and major
public libraries this fall.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)