<p>see also<ahref="Human_writing.html"title="User:Simon/Human writing">human writing</a>, <ahref="Machine_writing.html"title="User:Simon/Machine writing">machine writing</a>, <ahref="Producing_texts.html"title="User:Simon/Producing texts">producing texts</a>, <ahref="Technologising_the_word.html"title="User:Simon/Technologising the word">technologising the word</a>
</p><p>What makes up a text depends on perspective and overlapping dimensions of text; editorial, technical and social.
</p><p>The <i>editorial</i>dimension; a sequence. A line of characters and spaces, the particular order that the writer sets these in. Text becomes an object, a carrier of thoughts and feelings, something that can be sent back and forth between participants in a conversation.
</p><p>The <i>technical</i>dimension; a process. Cybertexts and “ergodic literature” require non-trivial effort to read<supclass="reference"id="cite_ref-1"><ahref="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>. Examples of this are MUDs (multi-user dungeons/domains/dimensions), which are real-time virtual worlds in which the players construct the story on-the-fly, and Mark Z. Danielewski’s <i>House of Leaves</i><supclass="reference"id="cite_ref-2"><ahref="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>, a printed novel that defies a linear narrative structure through its cybertextual materiality.
</p><p>The <i>social</i>dimension; a framework, a network of texts that elicit further texts.
</p><p>The library is a collection of texts; not just books, but also files, metadata, scripts and the processes that determine how they are used, and the readers who use them.
</p><p>Image: A spread from Danielewski’s <i>House of Leaves</i>
<liid="cite_note-1"><spanclass="mw-cite-backlink"><ahref="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span><spanclass="reference-text">Aarseth, E.J. (1997) <i>Cybertext: perspectives on ergodic literature</i>. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.</span>
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<liid="cite_note-2"><spanclass="mw-cite-backlink"><ahref="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span><spanclass="reference-text">Danielewski, M.Z. (2000) <i>Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of leaves</i>. 2nd ed. New York: Pantheon Books.</span>
