Friends/ Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of Color, Nor Haptic Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiModal Minds Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degrees of Sound. SOUND Wikipedia:Sound is vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas; particularly, sound means those vibrations composed of frequencies capable of being detected by ears. Using Other/Related Audio/Auditory Technologies Readers Would be Able To Hear That Range of Tones Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus And/Or Substitute And/Or Supplement An Author's Audio/Auditory Layer Such Tones Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance. THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really. Nearly A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Auditory Browsing Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases: _The NextWAVe(sm)_ Thoughts About The Proposal? Please Comment on The Posting At [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/20-08/06/texttonesm.html ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/53vmxn ] BTW: A Link to _The NextWAve(sm)_ is Also Available ... /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]