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A crucial issue in hypertext design is how to give the reader new capabilities without taking any existing ones away. This paper discusses the conversion of traditional, printed scholarly text to hypertext, focusing on the presentation of the explicit links between texts that are represented by direct quotations. It first examines how quotations are used by the author and the reader in traditional text. It then considers the conversion of scholarly text to hypertext, concentrating on how direct quotations should be handled. Three specific areas are examined: (i) what kinds of links are necessary, and what they should link together, (ii) how the linked texts should be divided into sections or nodes, and (iii) how the links and nodes should be displayed to the reader. The paper concludes by listing some recommendations for the conversion of scholarly text to hypertext.
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Stephanie W. Haas is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in natural language processing and information retrieval. Her most recent publications concern the vocabulary and structure of sublanguages.
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Haas, S.W. Quotations in scholarly text: Converting existing documents to hypertext. Comput Hum 28, 165–175 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01830737
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