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This paper presents requirements for a cybertext authoring system in the literary domain. Issues discussed include a drawing framework; pluggable objects; openness to a variety of different types of structure, including piles, relations, sets, links, and composites; flexible behavior (extensibility and tailorability); dependency control; non-binary file formats for export and import; web-enabled player; and portability. Issues relevant to structural computing appear throughout, as structural computing is the only paradigm likely to support all of these requirements.
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Rosenberg, J. (2000). Domain Requirements for a Cybertext Authoring System. In: Open Hypermedia Systems and Structural Computing. SC OHS 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39941-0_13
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