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Storyspace

In contrast to all the popular Word Processing, Desktop Publishing or also presentation oriented Hypertext programmes, the focus of Storyspace is on supporting spontaneous writing processes and to provide structures for the interplay and linkage of ideas. Methodical topographical writing in Writing Spaces, the smallest text units - thought, idea-object, plan, topos ... Writing Spaces are visualised as boxes between which cross references can be established using (nameable) arrows. These Writing Spaces represent a dynamic user metaphor in comparison to maps or monitor screen windows since they can be subdivided as often as desired, placed on the screen, moved, copied, etc. Therefore, loose data configurations are just as much an option as tight, clear, documents organised by subordination.

Storyspace is one of the few Hypertext systems which allow the user to write and read no longer in a linear, but rather, in a networked fashion: the links can be named and represented graphically as mapping - in various views; aids for the development of pathways through text sections are available (Pathbuilder), which open up a multitude of approaches to text sections ...

One can quickly and easily import out of all word processing programmes (each paragraph can thereby automatically become a Writing Space!) A variety of different readers that run as independent programmes are available for the electronic transmission of documents (no licence fees). It is also possible to export in standard text formats and to Hypercard (maintaining the link structures). A Windows reader is already announced. Only conditionally suited - due to the complex operation possibilities - for presentation purposes.

(Developed from 1989 on by the theoretician Jay David Bolter, the authors of interactive "novels" Michael Joyce and John B. Smith, and distributed by the small Hypermedia publisher EASTGATE SYSTEMS (Mark Bernstein) - $ 215, 10 Pack $ 599, Demo $ 10, which also distributes literary - scientific Hypertexts.)