Whew! I should have known better than to open up a Hypertext
discussion and then leave town for the Memorial Day holiday. I
greatly appreciate all the responses I have been reading through, many
of them from folks much more knowledgeable than I about both hypertext
and current networks, etc. In fact, I was almost completely scared
off the whole idea until Abigail's last note. Certainly the Cadillac
(or is the metaphor "Lexus" these days?) version of such a program
would involve full markup and be available over the network. But such
a text would involve a great deal of work and we may need to wait
until it becomes clear just which programs, lists, and the like are
going to survive and flourish.
Meanwhile, I have a couple of questions. Of course electronic
texts of the sort discussed by Pat Conner and others appeal greatly to
those of us who subscribe to networks like REED-L, but might not some
relatively simple hypertextual presentation of the REED material have
a broader audience? This links to my second question, which is
whether there might be some value to a "quick and dirty" hypertext
version of some of the records as a means of advertising REED during
tough financial times?
Peter
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