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I have now got all my paintings, several text sources, some plays, operas, and movies all added to my hypertext. Thanks to Mark Bernstein for diagnosing and fixing that amazingly quickly. In the meantime the workarounds are to use ‘smart’ web links, or to limit characters in URLs to plain old ASCII text, which is usually not difficult. The reason for my problems in getting text Web Links to work here is the use of non-ASCII characters in the URL: this will be fixed in the next release of Storyspace 3. But you cannot see the ‘smart’ link, as it is not a link in this sense. When you then browse the links (View menu) for that writing space, you will see, and can edit, that link, together with any other links for that writing space. Set the Type to text, as it is a text link that you want, and check that the URL given is correct. The link panel will then appear, just as if you were creating a regular link, which you are. Instead of pasting it, go to the foot of the Note menu, and select the Make Web Link… command. Then, bring up the page to which you are linking in your browser, select its URL and copy it, as if you were going to paste that URL into a document. Here the upper blue text is an existing ‘smart’ link for comparison, and I have selected the text in the line below which will form the anchor for the proper Web Link. A straightforward workflow is to insert the anchor text which is going to be used for the link (as a text link), and select it.

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These are readily created and maintained (there is little you can do to update a ‘smart’ link other than to make it afresh).

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Thus the better way ahead, which enjoys full support in Tinderbox too, is to use Web Links from the Note menu command Make Web Link…. And ‘smart’ links don’t export at all well. Although it works fine in Storyspace – which is intended for authoring hypertext for others to read using its reader app – it is a problem in sibling app Tinderbox, because that is designed with a view to exporting its notes. The method that I have been using so far is based on the ‘smart’ link which comes with the rich text provided in writing space content, but does not involve a true hypertext link. There are two fundamentally different ways in Storyspace 3 of putting web links into writing spaces. Once I have explained that, I will move on to what will be, I hope, the climax in this particular story, when I explore all the information that I now have in my hypertext document. Following further assistance from Mark Anderson, I can explain more clearly how they should work, even though in that particular (now pretty large and complex) Storyspace document they don’t appear to do so. Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a well-known figure in hypertext research, and has improved and extended Storyspace as well as developing new hypertext software.In my last article, I reported experiencing some limitations when using Web Links.

Storyspace was used in a project in Michigan to put judicial 'bench books' into electronic form. Smith in which much early hypertext fiction was written, and Tinderbox, a tool for managing notes and information.

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Its software tools include Storyspace, a hypertext system created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce, and John B. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts by established authors with careers in print, as well as new authors.

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Macintosh software industry Windows software industry Electronic publishingĮastgate is a pioneer in hypertext publishing and electronic literature and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction. Quick facts: Type, Industry, Founded, Headquarters, Produc.

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