[ksaj]

I'm as baffled as you. I did find this that may or may not help. It only very barely helped me. https://ia904500.us.archive.org/32/items/STRETCHTEXT/STRETCH...

It sounds like you have to write multiple versions of the text, and then if the user grabs one of the markers and "stretches" it, the next-most detailed version of the text will get loaded.

But I could be very wrong. It is extraordinarily difficult to find something concrete as a demo. I gave up on link after link of the same description with no actual demo anywhere.

[baliex]

> It is extraordinarily difficult to find something concrete as a demo.

I think that's because it would be extraordinarily difficult to write something good using StretchText. It would amazing if it could be done, but the amount of effort needed to do so is probably the main reason why no-one does.

[Aaargh20318]

With the advances in machine learning, I wonder if you couldn't automate it. Write the most detailed level and have some ML model generate the ever more high-level summaries.

[kordlessagain]

Yes, exactly. This is also applicable to building good prompts for language models from larger document sets.

Here is an example of using Github page summaries to seed knowledge in discussing various topics with GPT-3: https://github.com/daveshap/LongtermChatExternalSources

[NateEag]

My brother-in-law built a very small demo to advertise an implementation of StretchText he made years ago:

https://natematias.com/stretchtext/

I don't recall whether he ever built anything larger with that.