TEXT & HYPERTEXT

Multimedia

is the media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity) to inform or entertain the user. Multimedia also refers to the use of electronic media to store and experience multimedia content.

THIS IS SIMPLE TEXT

This is hypertext

Basic Texts

media for many multimedia systems.

in the form of words, sentences and paragraphs is used to communicate thoughts, ideas and facts in nearly every aspect of our lives.
Multimedia

many things: - to explain how the application work - to guide the user in navigating through the application. - deliver the information for which the application was designed.

products depends on text for

A typeface is a family of graphic characters including many type sizes and styles.
Courier and Arial are typefaces, each of which include many sizes & styles.
Times,

font is a collection of characters of a single size & style, belong to a typeface family
Typical

font styles are boldface and italic. Other style attributes, such as underlining, outlining, and strikeout of characters, may be added by your computer software.

Two

Serif

classes of fonts: Serif or Sans

Serif

fonts use decorative tips or flags at the ends of a letter strokes

Sans

Serif fonts dont have these features

Serif

fonts are usually used for documents or screens that have large quantities of text - This is because the serif helps guide the readers eye along the text

For computer displays, Sans Serif fonts considered better because of the sharper contrast.
Times New Roman Bookman Rockwell Light Courier New Century
Examples of Serif fonts Examples of San Serif fonts
Century Gothic Arial Comic Sans MS Impact Tahoma

Av
Unkerned

Av
Kerned

Leading

Reading Line One Reading Line One

: an upstroke on a character : the down stroke below the baseline of a character : spacing above and below a font or Line spacing : spacing between characters : space between pairs of characters, usually as an overlap
for improvement appearance

Ascender Descender Leading Tracking Kerning

ASCII(PLAIN

TEXT) ENCODED OR FORMATTED TEXT RICH TEXT FORMAT

The

simplest form of data encoding for text is ASCII (AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE). ASCII is text in an electronic format that can be read and interpreted by humans. It is a 7-bit coding scheme for text yielding 128 characters that includes lower and uppercase characters, punctuation, numbers, math symbols and 32 control characters.

It

uses embedded codes to determine the appearance of the text. The codes are separated with special characters such as line feeds or bracketed by symbols such as < and >. It often includes font selection and encoding for paragraph alignment and spacing. EXAMPLE:<H1>This is a Title </H1>

RTF

is a 8 bit format. It provides a number of font formatting features including sizing and bolding and paragraph formatting functions such as alignment. RTF is same as PLAIN TEXT but it also embeds special control characters into the text to provide additional features EXAMPLE:This is some {\b bold} text. This is some bold text.

Hypertext

is a text which contains links to other texts. The term was invented by Ted Nelson around 1965. It is an easy-to-use and flexible format to share information over the Internet.

Traversal through pages of hypertext is therefore usually non-linear (as shown in this figure).
EXAMPLE:http://www.cyberartsweb.org/ cpace/cpace/ht/systems.html

Hypermedia

combines the words hypertext and multimedia. Hypermedia is an updated extension of text in hypertext. Hypermedia documents contain links to other pieces of text, sound, images, movies, and other forms of media.

EXAMPLE:http://music.yahoo.com/

 As

a way of navigating the internet. A way of organizing content in a database. Entertainment. Making online purchases. Not just for the internet. Can be used in other applications such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, and presentations.

INDEXED

RETRIEVAL LINKED OR HYPERLINK

Indexed

retrieval systems consist of text that is indexed to other words. Information Retrieval systems, allowing users to search for items based on specified criteria. Indexed retrieval systems may be FULLY or PARTIALLY indexed.

Text is usually highlighted indicating a link to another word or another part of the document containing related material.

In this the text is fully categorized means all words are indexed for fast retrieval.

LINKED

or HYPERLINKED SYSTEMS are those which contains a reference to a document that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. EXAMPLE:In an online reference work such as Wikipedia, many words and terms in the text are hyperlinked to definitions of those terms.

CONCLUSION
Text is inexpensive to produce.

Text has many characteristics that the developer can modify to enhance the user experience - size, weight, typeface, style, colour, kerning, tracking, etc. Hypertext is a text which contains links to other texts.
Hypermedia combines the words hypertext and multimedia. Hypertext/Hypermedia can be used in other applications such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, and presentations.