Text description with text description languages
Dafydd Gibbon
Summer Semester 1996
Version: May 7, 1996

• Contents
• 1 Text Construction with Text Description Languages
• 2 Term Plan (tentative)
• 3 What is `Text'? - Levels of description
  • On defining `text'
  • Points for discussion and further research
• 4 Registers, functional styles, Textsorten
  • Language variation
  • Register and constitutive factors
  • Speech acts, dialogue acts, discourse
• 5 Scripts and Story Grammars
• 6 Hypertext syntax
  • Hypertext document syntax
  • Models for Hypertext syntax
  • Hypertext document traversal
• 7 HTML
• 8 Text design and `HTML'
  • A design procedure
• 9 Text description with `HTML'
• 10 What is `LaTeX'
• 11 Practical session: text description with `LaTeX'
• 12 Production of text: Composition and implementation
• 13 Text design project: Choice of type, specification
• 14 Conclusion
• References
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