The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Creating and Using Electronic Editions. In In The Literary Text in the Digital Age , ed. Richard J. Finneran, 1-21. University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Printing makes documents eminently readable by humans.
Web pages makes them widely accessible. Encoding provides a way for the computer to be trained to read and manipulate text so that it can be searched, reconfigured, analyzed, and manipulated in a variety of ways. In The Literary Text in the Digital Age , ed. Richard J. Finneran, 37-61. University of Michigan Press, 1996.