Hypertext is a kind of writing. While most writing is typically presented in a sequence (e.g., in a book, the second page always comes directly after the first), hypertext uses links to create multiple paths through a document. A link is a computational object which permits readers to actuate sequences of text using a pointing device such a mouse. In simple hypertexts, clicking a link may be just like turning a page.

In fact, you've probably already written some hypertext yourself. If you have ever posted a Web site with a link on the World Wide Web, you've written hypertext. Eastgate publishes hypertexts by established authors with careers in print as well as by talented new authors.

Hypertext, a word invented by Ted Nelson that has now become shopworn from overuse, simply designates a collection of digitized documents, connected by links, more or less structured, and equipped with a navigational interface. The greater the structure, the more it resembles a database; the less the structure, the more it resembles chaos.

Yes, Penix's "lsl2html" tool converts an LSL input file to HTML, so it can be browsed over the net. It can be found at the following URL. http://www.ece.uc.edu/~kbse/lsl2html/ Unfortunately, Penix's tool has a few problems that have never been fixed. Instead, you might want to use Leavens's tool "lcpp2html", which is available from the following URL. http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/lcpp2html.html

Some Eastgate hypertexts are published on CD, while others are published on floppy disk. Each hypertext comes with installation and reading instructions. Simply insert the disk into your computer, and follow the instructions.

Excerpts from Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop and Marble Springs by Deena Larsen are available here and here. Please note, these excerpts are sampled from the much larger and more complicated hypertext originals. As the excerpts have been adapted for the Web, what you see here on the Web site looks quite a bit different from the original. You might also be interested in the Web hypertexts published in Eastgate's Web zine, The Eastgate Reading Room.

No. We publish hypertexts of merit regardless of the software used to create them. Our authors have used many kinds of authoring software in addition to Storyspace, including Macromedia's Flash, Director, HyperCard, Oracle Media Objects, and Toolbox. Some have even written their own environments, creating hypertexts that are original right down to the code.

When Eastgate started publishing hypertexts in 1987, there weren't many hypertexts around, and there were very few tools. At that time, anyone who was committed to hypertext publishing would have had to develop the tools, publish the literature, and promote them both, and that is what Eastgate did. There weren't many other options. Since then, we've kept all our titles in print and available, which has naturally resulted in a preponderance of Storyspace works in the catalogue.

Although most of our non-direct sales are to booksellers, we've found dealing with wholesalers and distributors to be expensive and inefficient. As book distribution is expensive for both publishers and booksellers, we've not yet hit upon a way to make the present book distribution system work for us. If you're a bookseller and you'd like to stock our titles, please drop us a line at info@eastgate.com, or call.

Eastgate hypertexts are priced competitively in relation to other, comparable products, such as John Maeda's Tap, Type, Write or Stopping Time: The Life and Work of Harold Edgerton, which retail for $29.95 and $37.95, respectively. Moreover, while the cost of books has soared in the last two decades, Eastgate's prices have remained remarkably stable -- typically no more than $19.95-$24.95 for most titles.

Then you can use "Edit >Paste page from..." to insert the logo anywhere you want. You might also use Headersand Footers This can happen for short text, as Hyper Publish tries to use intelligent behavior when you cut & paste. Sometimes the behavior is not exactly as you might expect.

Yes, the extensible markup language (XML) and its related standards are rapidly being taken up and will all be official very soon. Some of those related standards include XLink and XPointer (for linking and related activities) and the synchronized multimedia integration language (SMIL) for synchronized events. Robin Cover has an outstanding index of XML material. The XML Resource Guide at XML.com is also quite good.

The HTTP is a protocol used for the transfer of WWW (World Wide Web) documents, a distributed information system, based on hypertext, created in the beginnings of the nineties by Tim Berners Lee, investigator in the CERN, Switzerland. The information can be of any format (text, image, audio, video) and it is easily accessible by the users thank to the web browsers.

If you're in the airline business one link from Virgin is worth a lot more than many links from your neighbour's son's metal band site. Both of these are external links (absolute links) Also consider internal links (relative) between pages within your site. One of my subcontracting web developers had a link to a florist's page about wreaths. Instead of a search engine loving file name such as wreaths.htm the web page was, for this ecommerce site, named category2_1.

WWW stands for "World Wide Web." The WWW project, started by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), seeks to build a "distributed hypermedia system." In practice, the web is a vast collection of interconnected documents, spanning the world. Tim Berners-Lee continues his pioneering work with the W3 Consortium at MIT.

when you use FrontPage editor, first select the text or picture, and then select insert menu in menu bar, and then select hyperlink command.

Teachers may order Eastgate hypertexts through their college bookstores, or they may have their students order directly from Eastgate, either via the Web or on the phone. Teachers not ordering through bookstores should remind students that because standard shipping from Eastgate takes 7-10 business days, they should be sure to order their hypertexts well in advance of any class deadlines. Faster shipping is available, but it costs more.