Editing E-text (section)

==E-text origins==

E-texts, or [[electronic document]]s, have been around since long before the Internet, the Web, and specialized E-book reading hardware. [[Roberto Busa]] began developing an electronic edition of [[Aquinas]] in the 1940s, while large-scale electronic text editing, [[hypertext]], and online reading platforms such as [[NLS (computer system)|Augment]] and [[FRESS]] appeared in the 1960s. These early systems made extensive use of formatting, [[markup language|markup]], automatic tables of contents, [[hyperlinks]], and other information in their texts, as well as in some cases (such as FRESS) supporting not just text but also graphics.<ref>Reading and Writing the Electronic Book. Nicole Yankelovich, Norman Meyrowitz, and Andries van Dam. IEEE Computer 18(10), October 1985. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4407</ref>