Category: AuthoringSystem HyperText
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Columbia
        University, New York, NY, USA 
Journal: Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination
        and Design
Abstract: The IGD (Interactive Graphical Documents) hypermedia
        system was designed to make possible interactive
        presentations that can be explored by and customized
        for individual users. The author describes IGD's
        authoring facilities through an annotated excerpt
        from an editing session, emphasizing how the
        system's document model and user interface help
        support the creation of large documents. Although
        IGD successfully addressed some of the issues of
        scale, experience with the system shows that it is
        wrong to cast many of the problems of authoring
        large hypertexts as ones that can be solved by
        implementing editors of sufficient scope and
        sophistication. Hypertext design systems based on
        direct editing of documents inherit many of the
        bottlenecks associated with the conventional
        document authoring process. These problems are
        compounded by the added intellectual burden of
        designing a connective structure of keyworded links.
        He contrasts the reality of the author-centered,
        editor-based approach to document design and layout,
        exemplified by IGD, with the promise of a
        knowledge-based, automated alternative, and
        discusses why many of the facilities provided by IGD
        will still be useful even if presentations can be
        created entirely automatically.
Number: 1
Bibtype: Article
Author: S. K. Feiner
Pages: 29-46
Month: feb
Title: Authoring large hypermedia documents with IGD
Year: 1990
Volume: 3
Keyword: electronic publishing, hypermedia, text editing,
        user interfaces, hypermedia documents, IGD,
        interactive presentations, authoring facilities,
        editing session, user interface, connective
        structure, keyworded links