Analytic Mode
The analytic mode provides a detailed discussion of a topic. Using the analytic mode, an author can offer readers the chance to delve into the subject-matter. Where the synoptic mode provides an overview, the wide coverage of a topic, the analytic mode allows deep coverage. In a hypertext, the net effect of using the analytic mode is that an author can provide information in the finest detail without having to worry about taking up space with details readers only interested an overview don't want; the purpose of the analytic mode is to provide details. Therefore, for a work using both panoptic modes (synoptic and analytic), at analytic level the author can assume a reader has some purpose in pursuing detailed information.
The analytic mode in hypertext is no different as such from the analytic mode in print. The difference between hypertext and print is that a reader in hypertext only comes to the analytic level if the synoptic level does not have enough detail to fulfill the reader's purpose.
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