Features

HyperScope gives you the ability to change how you view a document (view specifications, or "viewspecs" for short) and how you address parts of a document. You can embed viewspecs in an address, and you can use these addresses to link to or jump around a document.

For example, every paragraph in a HyperScope document has a location number, an address corresponding to the paragraph's location in a document. For example, the second paragraph in the top-level of a document has the location number 2. To link to this paragraph, you can use the address:

  http://foo/bar.opml#2

To jump directly to the second paragraph while viewing a document, you can click on the Jump button, type 2, and press Apply.

You can see the location numbers for every paragraph, you can click Viewspecs, check the Numbering checkbox, and click on Apply. You'll notice that this view corresponds with the viewspec m. To link to the second paragraph of the document with numbering turned on, you can use the address:

  http://foo/bar.opml#2:m

You can also jump to this particular paragraph and view by clicking on Jump and typing 2:m.

HyperScope also has an advanced command-line mode that is based on the Augment hypertext system.

HyperScope works with any documents published in its OPML-based file format, a simple XML format that is easy to generate. It is a client-side JavaScript library that does not require the installation of any special server software.