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- Hypertext users should be able to find and read only what is
- important to them (and easily skip what is not important to them).
- For that reason, one important characteristic of any hypertext
- system is many small units of text each organized around a
- single idea.
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- Finding Idea units tend to be one to several paragraphs in length.
- existing If you paraphrase the contents of each paragraph, the
- ideas idea boundaries occur when the paraphrase changes.
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- Creating In creating original hypertext screens, I like to:
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- ideas - limit size to one screen or 22 lines of text
- - use a TITLE, DESCRIPTION, INDENT LIST, SUMMARY format
- - Avoid dense text by using 2 sentence paragraphs
- - Leave ample left and bottom margin
- - Add an author link and a max of 3 relationship links
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- Summary: One idea per screen makes excellent hypertext
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