NDLI: ActiveText: a method for creating dynamic and interactive texts

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Lewis, Jason E. Weyers, Alex
Abstract	This paper describes ActiveText, a method for creating dynamic and interactive texts. ActiveText uses an object-based hierarchy to represent texts. This hierarchy makes it easy to work with the ASCII component and pixel component of the text at the same time. Static, dynamic and interactive properties of text can be easily intermixed and layered. The user can enter and edit text, adjust static and dynamic layout, apply dynamic and interactive behaviors, and adjust their parameters with a common set of tools and a common interface. Support for continuous editing allows the user to sketch dynamically. A prototype application called It's Alive! has been implemented to explore the ActiveText functionality. The documents produced by It's Alive! can be of use in a wide-range of areas, including chat-spaces, email, web-sites, fiction and poetry writing, and low-end film & video titling.
Starting Page	131
Ending Page	140
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581130759
DOI	10.1145/320719.322594
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1999-11-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Dynamic typograpyy Interactive text Dynamic sketching Continuous editing Typography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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ActiveText: a method for creating dynamic and interactive texts