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- \ul Ideas for HyperText Documents using HT\ul
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- HT is a very flexible program which has many possibilites. If you have
- a message which involves text information, HT fits in perfectly. HT
- integrates with the other Amiga tools you use and lets you easily
- incorporate the other types of media with your text. Lets just start
- rolling off ideas that you can use as a starting point for your projects.
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- The ability to be able to run other applications by the click of a
- button really opens some doors. For example, documentation for a program
- could actually run the program for you. Through the ARexx interface, it
- would fairly easy to send commands to control an external program from
- within \ITALIC HT.\ITALIC This would allow documentation to \BOLD
- really \BOLD demonstrate a program and its features.
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- Creating reports on any topic could be easily done. Write your report
- normally and then link in relevant pictures, sounds, animations, etc. A
- physics report could show bar charts of data. A review of a piece of music
- could contain samples or even the whole piece. A product list could
- contain links to actual demos of the products. Business reports could have
- links defined to other information about the company or an external demo.
- It is possible to create documentation that steps a novice user through the
- process of learning a software package.
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- Another interesting application is the ability to create Adventure
- games in the style of the "choose your own adventure" books. However, with
- HT it could be even more entrancing. Players could speak, pictures of
- battles could be displayed, and there is even the possibility for including
- swordfighting action via an external program.
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- With HT, people can take notes on topics that interest them. They can
- then save those notes, or print them, or even edit them directly. Now
- wouldn't it be nice if you could take notes on difficult sections of a
- program manual and have the notes saved to disk for easy later reference.
- Then any time you have a problem, you would just call back up your notes
- and find the part that gave you trouble. No more flipping through 700 page
- manuals fumbling through to find the section you need.
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- HT gives you \it interactive information. \it It can transform a
- boring physics lesson into a completely dynamic session in which the
- concepts are \bold visually \bold demonstrated. People are learn best
- when they use all of their senses, and HT gives you the vehicle to do
- this with. No more boring text only files, let's have them with full color
- pictures, stereo sound/music and good user interaction. Your information
- will get across much better than it ever has before if you take advantage
- of the ability to involve all of their senses, not just their eyes.
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- The only real limit on what you can do with HT is your imagination.
- In general, if you would normally type something in, the effort to add a
- few links can make a large difference to your final message. You as the
- author get a rich set of options to use to help get your point across. The
- user gets a flexible time-saving environment for going through all of your
- information.
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- \ul Here is a list of general ideas to get you started :\ul
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- Interactive Presentations
- Interactive Educational Information
- Help Facility for Programs
- Adventure Games
- Documentation
- Keeping Notes for School (fully indexed!)
- Application "Hub"
- Technical manuals with \bold live \bold examples
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