Essay 16 Eachyear's SlGDOCconferencefeatures a symposium of juried presentations that "highlight exemplary graduate student research or thesis work" relevant to documentation. The best such student paper wins its author full conference registration and hotel costs. David W. Norton's winning presentation at SIGDOC96was the basisfrom which he developed the article below. For details on the 1997graduate student symposium, contact Brad Meblenbach~ Graduate Student Competition Chair, English Department, Box 8105, North Carolina State University, Raliegh, NC 27695 (brad m@unity.ncsu.edu). The Linguistics of Links: Hyperphoric Grammar Markups for HTML Documents David W. Norton Yamamoto Moss 252 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 dnorton @yamamoto-moss.com Introduction The lessons technical communicators learned about structuring information for WinHelp will come in handy for HTML. But, because it is an open, emerging system, HTMLis different, as so many technical communicators are finding out. Whereas WinHelp has features like a button bar, popups, and macros to provide a overall, cohesive structure to a specific document type that has a very specific purpose, the conventions for signaling structure in Netscape Navigatorand MicrosoftInternet Explorer are poor to completely ineffective. For most users, the directory buttons take you to sites on Netscape's or Microsoft's pages. The Backand Forward buttons
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