[ba-ohs-talk] Purple numbered document authoring or How one can assemble quoted portions taken from different documents (Re: Starting Point for Collab Tool)
Although not quite complete, I have a short description (with screenshots :) of using PurpleSlurple to author "PSdocs" (i.e., documents containing granular links to *external* source documents): http://radio.weblogs.com/0105726/categories/purpleslurple/psDocumentCreation.html (01)
PurpleSlurple addresses a number of issues (as I understand them) near and dear to Ted Nelson: (02)
* Affords deep quotability (at the paragraph level currently but *quotation in any part* coming soon!): http://www.sasites.com/suse/apache/files/pstxt.php?theurl=http://ted.hyperland.com/quotableformat.txt#purp6
* Avoids embedded markup (in the sense that the source document need not have any -- plain text works): http://www.sasites.com/suse/apache/files/pstxt.php?theurl=http://ted.hyperland.com/buyin.txt#purp36
* One can assemble quoted portions taken from different documents (see my PSdoc creation article): http://www.sasites.com/suse/apache/files/pstxt.php?theurl=http://ted.hyperland.com/quotableformat.txt#purp18 (03)
While PurpleSlurple may be a "duct tape and baling wire solution"[1], and one that may not be around forever, it *is* available today FOR MILLIONS OF DOCUMENTS THAT DON'T HAVE PURPLE NUMBERS. (04)
PurpleSlurple affords me quite a lot of utility in my own work in the fashion described. Some other ways to utilize PurpleSlurple (05)
* Drag and drop PSsnippets into your IM client
* Drag and drop PSsnippets into your email client
* Print out your documents with PSnumbers for easy reference and discussion at meetings
* Use PSnumbers to facilitate reading (and bookmarking) long online articles or ebooks
* Use the granular links in Ideagraph, PurpleWiki and for all your newsgroups postings
* and many, many others (06)
Please indulge me, view my short overview of creating a PSdoc, and see if you don't agree. (07)
Best regards, (08)
Matthew A. Schneider (09)
[1] This is my description. As an aerospace engineer from Tri-State U., I can attest to the utility of duct tape and baling wire. (010)