factors in Espen Aarseth's Typography

Scriptons:  strings of text as they appear to a reader

Textons:  strings as they exist in the text

Traversal Function:  the mechanism by which scriptons are revealed or generated from textons
 
 
 
 

Variable

Dynamics
Determinability
Transiency
Perspective
Access
Linking
User function

 Possible Value

Static, IDT, TDT*
Determinable, indeterminable
Transient, intransient
Personal, Impersonal
Random, controlled
Explicit, conditional, none
Explorative, configurative, interpretive, textonic

 
 
Espen Aarseth,
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, p. 65

*IDT, TDT:  intratextonic dynamics, textonic dynamics

 

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