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thibaulthalpern · 05-05-2009, 04:47 AM

An example of why layout matters, and not just textual matter, Derrida's Glas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glas_(book)

Here, he writes in two columns (one a commentary on Hegel, and another on Genet) with interweaving quotes. I'm not sure that in other digital book formats aside from PDF would work for this kind of text.

I too have composed text where the layout is part and parcel of the way one engages with the document. A long time ago I wrote a "mystoriography" interweaving a second set of voices between lines of the main text.

05-05-2009, 04:47 AM	#18
thibaulthalpern Evangelist Posts: 478 Karma: 451808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California, USA Device: my two eyes, KLiiK, Sony PRS-700	An example of why layout matters, and not just textual matter, Derrida's Glas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glas_(book) Here, he writes in two columns (one a commentary on Hegel, and another on Genet) with interweaving quotes. I'm not sure that in other digital book formats aside from PDF would work for this kind of text. I too have composed text where the layout is part and parcel of the way one engages with the document. A long time ago I wrote a "mystoriography" interweaving a second set of voices between lines of the main text. Last edited by thibaulthalpern; 05-05-2009 at 04:49 AM.