Storyspace & The hyperText Project
The Storyspace Text
Space
![Storyspace Text Space [45k]](/resources/storyspace_text.gif)
A Storyspace text space
This is what the 'upper' part of a Storyspace box can contain. Apart from
text it could contain a sound file, a movie, or picture. Of course it could also
include a combination of these things.
In this particular hypertext text
links
are typographically distinguished by bold type. Of course they don't have
to be so marked, and there is a keyboard combination that is available that will
show where link sources are within a text space. This is pretty much the only
way to find links within a graphic.
(Storyspace supports multiple links from parts of an image, like the
imagemaps that these web pages use. The difference in Storyspace is that all you
have to do is paste the graphic, draw a link, and complete it. If only imagemaps
where so friendly.)
Text spaces are scrollable and resizable windows (this can be changed) and
they can be moved around the screen by the writer and reader. Multiple windows
can be open at any one time.
It is usually from within such text spaces that readers and writers of
Storyspace webs make and follow the links that constitute the hypertext.
A small pedagogical caveat...
While
Storyspace is one of the major hypertext tools being used, it must be borne in
mind that the
Hypertext Project is an effort to
develop an understanding and awareness of new modes of writing and publication.
All work undertaken within the Project is orientated towards these issues,
rather than specific software products or proprietary solutions. This is why the
Project's long term aim is to test the possibilities of allowing students across
subjects to have multiple methods of presenting work, and for staff to have
multiple modes of assessing work.
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