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1. Digital, the new medium for text
1.1 Digitized text
To fully understand the material underpinnings of the current revolution, we first need to look at digitization techniques. Computers make it possible to encode images, sound and text and process them programmatically. The convergence of different media brought about by their digitization constitutes what is now known as multimedia. In this process, however, text occupies a singular place. Unlike images and sound, whose analog materiality is coded, text can be coded in two fundamentally different ways: image mode and text mode.
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Digital writing tools are rare. We can distinguish between tools made by authors for their own use, tools diverted from their original purpose and dedicated tools.
The field of automatic text generation, when it goes beyond simple combinatorics, falls into the first category. Although attempts have been made to make these tools available to the public, their complex implementation reserves them for specialists....
Digital writing on the Web. Some addresses
Text generators
Jean-Pierre Balpe's generators http://www.labart.univ-paris8.fr/~gtextes/
A generative novel by the @graphe group http://www.trajectoires.com/
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