Lynx Line Indexer

The Lynx Digital Scholarship Wiki
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Digital Scholarship comes in three forms. The first is the quantitative analysis of scientific and mathematical problems. The second is the electronic formatting and compilation of existing texts, whether Classic, scientific or Humanistic. The third is the search, summary and analysis of online (e-formatted) texts, with the intent of assisting in and encouraging their readership.

This site is concerned with the third form of digital scholarship, and will teach and provide the means for scholars to summarize works of literature using a line-indexing program. The results will be a publicly accessible database, of use to students, teachers and writers who need a fast and infallible way to peruse weighty volumes.

The texts themselves will be downloadable, and useful as e-note binders, concordance builders and indexing tools.

Here is an example of a line-linked plot summary. The Hamlet Plot Summary

Line-links can be gathered, organized and categorized into useful and indexes, and used as supporting evidence.

Sounds useful and interesting? Well, here's how to proceed.

Lesson One
Gathering Links

The most important feature of line-indexed text is the ease with which one may quote, excerpt, refer, prove and otherwise cite lines within a given work.

And of the few line-indexing systems extant, only the EC Line-Indexer uses trouble-free HTML, is downloadable, and allows for the quick, almost instant retrieveal of any link to any line, no matter how long the work.

That is because every line is anchored to a partner point, and by clicking on the hyper-linked asterisk at the head of the line, you are immediately taken to that point which appears at the top of the "index" page. By clicking on the hyper-linked number, you will return to the page from which you are retrieving the line-link, however, the line you are linking to will now be at the top of the page, and it's URL will be in the browser box, the display bar at the top of the page. There, you may copy it on to your clipboard, and then paste it into your text. If you are using a Wikia website, you will use the formula [the URL from the browser box + a space]. This will create a highlighted word or phrase linked to the line you have gathered the link from. For example a link to the Google search engine will look like this (right-facing square bracket)http://www.google.com/ Google search engine(left-facing square bracket). Don't forget the "http://" part of the web address. "Www" just won't hack it where creating URL's is concerned.

If you would like more alternatives concerning linking using Wiki notation, click here. Then, click on the Edit-find(on this page) tab on the browser window frame, and type the word "link" (or any word for which you want more information, for that matter), into the pop-up window's active box.