Talk:Display an outline as a nested table: Difference between revisions

# Logically connected peers are visually driven further and further apart as subordinate elaboration expands, and cognitive work is required to reconnect the 'sentences' which they form when read together.

# The 'vertical' metaphor of *support* (evidence supporting claim, clarification supporting reference etc) is replaced by a visually less direct horizontal convention, and, again, takes some cognitive work to reconstruct.

 

A potential *weakness* of tabular representations of argument/exposition structures is, of course, that some horizontal contiguities are more meaningful than others. One solution is to add more space at the margins where the edges of sub-trees meet, and another is to distinguish adjacent subtrees by color – hence the '''extra credit''' task.

# the visual presentation of nested key points and supporting points (rather than sub-divided topics)

# and the teaching of argument structure.

 

(The current Perl6 color scheme rather helpfully shows that I failed to make this at all obvious or clear :-) Thank you ! [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 04:36, 24 October 2019 (UTC)