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To summarize, the prospective author of a link must make two choices. One is the link's type (implying a semantic direction). The other is the physical direction of the link. The latter captures the manner in which readers are expected to follow the link.
We should note that the above formulation still leaves one possilbe source of confusion. Given, say, a Solution link connecting A to B, it may not be clear whether this is to be read "A solves B" or "A solved-by B." Though readers can probably disambiguate from context, the system has no such ability. In the future, Textnet may require an additional tag specifying whether the semantic direction is along the physical direction or reversed. (Trigg, n.p.)
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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