{"id":620,"date":"2004-10-31T22:48:37","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T02:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=620"},"modified":"2004-10-31T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T02:48:37","slug":"jason-lewis-activetext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Jason Lewis: ActiveText"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a title=\"Untitled Document\" href=\"http:\/\/textologies.mcmaster.ca\/\">Textologies<\/a> workshop organized here at McMaster by Travis Kroeker and Andrew Mactavish, I saw a neat project, <a title=\"RESEARCH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thethoughtshop.com\/research\/atextr\/atext.htm\">ActiveText<\/a> that was demonstrated by <a title=\"RESEARCH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thethoughtshop.com\/about\/index.htm\">Jason E. Lewis<\/a> at Concordia. ActiveText is a C++ library that can be used to make active text. Jason has gotten it right &#8211; the objects he handles go from glyphs up to passages. They can have behaviors so that segments of text are activated. See the animation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI think Jason has got the primitives for text programming right &#8211; what I was imagining in <a title=\"Text Toy Language\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/000060.html\">Text Toy Language<\/a> and <a title=\"Text Toy Language 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/000062.html\">Text Toy Language 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Textologies workshop organized here at McMaster by Travis Kroeker and Andrew Mactavish, I saw a neat project, ActiveText that was demonstrated by Jason E. Lewis at Concordia. ActiveText is a C++ library that can be used to make active text. Jason has gotten it right &#8211; the objects he handles go from glyphs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jason Lewis: ActiveText<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}