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Hypotext vs. Hypertext — What's the Difference?

Hypotext vs. Hypertext — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hypotext and Hypertext

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Hypotext

Hypotext is an earlier text which serves as the source of a subsequent piece of literature, or hypertext. For example, Homer's Odyssey could be regarded as the hypotext for James Joyce's Ulysses.

Hypertext

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click, keypress set, or screen touch.

Hypotext

(semiotics) An earlier text which serves as the source of a subsequent piece of literature.

Hypertext

Digital text that contains hyperlinks to other texts.

Hypertext

(uncountable) Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks.
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Hypertext

(countable) A hypertext document.

Hypertext

Machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected;
Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper

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