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'r83RECONFIGURINGWRITINGone preparing such materials confronts the problem of how best to preservethe integrity of the older text, which may be a literary, philosophical, or otherwork whose overall structure plays an important role in its effect. The basicquestion that someone presenting text created for print technology in hypermediamust answer is, Can one divide the original into reading units shorterthan those in which it appeared in a book, or does such presentation violateits integrityl Some literary works, such as sonnet sequences or Pascal's Pen'sdes, seem easily adapted to hypermedia since they originally have the form ofbrief sections, but other works do not seem adaptable without doing violenceto the original. Therefore, when adapting documents created for book technology,do not violate the original organization, though one should takeadvantage of the presence of discrete subsections and other elements thattend to benefit from hypertextualization. However, when the text natura$ divides into sections, these provide the basis of text blocks. The hypermediaversion must contain linkages between previous and following sections to retaina sense ofthe original organization.Converting Footnotes and Endnotes. The treatment of notes in the fourhypertext versions ofthe first version ofthis book provides an object lessonabout the complexities of working in a new kind of writing environment- Itreminds us, in particular, how specific writing strategies depend on a combinationof equipment and often apparently trivial features of individual systems,some of which militate against what seem to be intrinsic qualities ofhypertext. For example, as we have already observed in "Reconfiguring Text,"hypertextualization tends to destroy the rigid opposition between main andsubsidiary text, thereby potentially either removing notes as a form of text orelse demanding that we create multiple forms of them. Certainly, in hypertextualizingsome of my own works, longer footnotes and endnotes containingsubstantive discussions became lexias in their own right.Briefer notes that contain bibliographical citations embody a more complexproblem that has several different solutions, each of which creates adifferent kind ofhypertext. If one wishes to produce a hypertext version of aprinted original that remains as close as possible to it, then simply convertingendnotes into a single list of them makes sense; using the tag,each link will lead to the appropriate item. Another approach, which producesan axially structured hypertext, involves placing each bibliographical note inits own lexia and linking to it. Using simple HTML, authors can make thislexia open in a number of ways. Following standard HTML procedure, thenote replaces the text in which the link to the note appears; one can create a