Re: Non-linear full-2d writing (again)
From: | Jefferson Wilson <jeffwilson63@...> |
Date: | Saturday, January 28, 2006, 20:38 |
Sai Emrys wrote:
> On 1/25/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
>
>>1. Thanks for trying to explain your notion of "non-linear", and how it
>>differs from simply "not presented along a straight line". If I might
>>summarise, I think your meaning of "non-linear" is what I would call
>>"non-sequential". So we're really talking about basic internal structure
>>here, rather than (primarily) about representation.
>
> Two good tests are branching factor and recursivity. If it can't to
> both to arbitrary degrees, it's not what I'm talking about.
What do you mean by "arbitrary degree?" If all symbols are the
same size you're more-or-less restricted to six branches from a
single symbol.
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Jefferson
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