Lesson plan
Stretchtext
's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, with Wittgenstein's further commentary on the propositions being revealed Stretchtext (also called StretchText, stretchtext, stretch-text) is a hypertext feature that allows the reader to expand the text to show more detail. The term was defined in 1970 by Ted Nelson as a genre of hypertext, although he had described it in unpublished materials as early as 1967. Stretchtext has not gained mass adoption in systems like the World Wide Web, but has remained a topic of study in hypertext and hypermedia research, and has also been used to literary and poetic effect in electronic literature and interactive cinema.
Article summary
's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, with Wittgenstein's further commentary on the propositions being revealed Stretchtext (also called StretchText, stretchtext, stretch-text) is a hypertext feature that allows the reader to expand the text to show more detail. The term was defined in 1970 by Ted Nelson as a genre of hypertext, although he had described it in unpublished materials as early as 1967. Stretchtext has not gained mass adoption in systems like the World Wide Web, but has remained a topic of study in hypertext and hypermedia research, and has also been used to literary and poetic effect in electronic literature and interactive cinema.
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Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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