It's all about the context

A Context is a collection of data, often stored in a Map or in a custom class which acts as a struct with accessors and modifiers.

It is used for maintaining state and for sharing information within a system.

See this PDF for an indepth description.

Though it can be used for efficient and effective data sharing, you should note that many are wary of the Context pattern as an anti-pattern.

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Pattern processing

A template is a document pattern or part of a document that you keep stored to make new documents.

They can define the layout, fonts, margins, and other features of a document. Word processing, desktop publishing, and HTML editing programs sometimes call these "style sheets". You might also hear templates called "stationary", like in Outlook Express.

Whatever you call 'em, they sure can make life easier.

~ David -- See the journal French Metablog with today different posts - Jean-Philippe Pastor

Mapping ideas with hypertext

People have different ways of communicating their experiences.

Some express themselves in pictures, others talk about how things sound to them, and others speak about how things feel.

A Mental Map in an hypertext is a powerful way of expressing the thought patterns, pictures and associations that already exist in the brain. "When new information is compatible with your knowledge structures it is accepted, when it does not mesh with your pre-conceived ideas or past experience it receives little consideration, is distorted or ignored".

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Linear continuity

Hypertext writing and systems that emphasise 'usability' (where usability seems to assume ease of use as a positive attribute for any hypertext), place an emphasis on the syntagmatic.

This emphasis on the smooth flow of links into nodes describes a highly linear reading experience. Interestingly, in Bernstein's examples most of the patterns that would probably relate to 'usability' are represented by highly linear images, the sieve for instance. However, the emphasis in the syntagmatically oriented hypertext is not, as might be thought, on simple patterns (any variety of pattern could be formed by the reader) but on linear continuity.


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Predictable spot

In refusing to predict the inventive accommodation that allows for communication, proponents of paralogic hermeneutics do accommodate the nebulous nature of hypertextual movement.

When I surf the web, I rarely end in a predictable spot.

Therefore, I find myself paying closer attention to my path and the connections between seemingly disparate web texts. This attention to the connections often helps me to recognize patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed. More traditional texts, in attempting to control "drift", may try to keep readers moving along a certain track, but if an individual traces her own path toward understanding a concept, there are inevitably twists and turns that create a road to knowledge that no other mind would, or could re-create.

While the challenge of hypertextual drift may prove too much for some literary theories, paralogy and, in particular, paralogic hermeneutics seems well equipped to deal with the phenomenon. There are differences between the old way and the new, but Kent shows that a theory which informs paper-based technology helps to accurately describe the reality of matching author, text, and reader in the world of hypertext as well.


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Reading competencies

Since syntagmatic series are largely reader determined it is incumbent on hypertext writers, and developers, to articulate those reading practices necessary to identify and contextualise paradigms of reading.

Successful reading requires the recognition of paradigmatic choices, not only at the simple grammatical level of the sentence, but also at the larger level of narrative episode and generic convention. When readers read poetry, or literature, or even the newspaper, a set of reading competencies are utilised that include an understanding of the genre in relation to other possible genres or styles, that is, that one style exists in a paradigmatic relation to others, and this is largely where the signficance of a particular work is determined. Within hypertext such readerly competencies are much less developed, resulting in a misunderstanding of hypertext pattern, reading, and writing, simply because the paradigm against which hypertext is read and interpreted consists of a normative and potentially singular notion of structure as effiency and economy.

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Autonomous segments

Hypertext, unlike traditional cinema, provides for nodes that can be reused, or reappear, in any particular pattern, and this practice of reuse or repetition is one of the principal methodologies employed in hypertext writing (and reading). This means, obviously, that the autonomous segments that can be formed in hypertext, while falling into many different types, also have the feature of a particular node or even minor series forming a significant part of a completely different autonomous segment.

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