Syntagmatic- and paradigmatic stretchtext Tor Brekke Skjøtskift   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Form through stretching Abstract Stretchtext, as conceptualised by Nelson, is a text that can be made more compressed or complex on demand. This paper presents a project where a Sherlock Holmes story is made into stretchtext in text, audio and video. Several narrative challenges are identified, of which two will be discussed in this paper: syntagmatic stretchtext, and paradigmatic stretchtext. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery