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- \title An Example of what you can do with HT.
- \center
- \bold
- Welcome to HT - An Amiga Hypertext program
- This is a quick demo, but should give you a good feel
- for what is possible with HT.\bold
-
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- To quickly let you know, links are shown in inverse video and can be
- followed by double clicking the mouse on them. Scrolling is done with the
- keyboard arrow keys, the scrollbar, or arrow gadgets (or even the numeric
- keypad if you feel so inclined!).
-
- Recently, the word \bold "Hypertext" \bold has been \ital widely \ital
- used (and abused) in the computer press and even mainstream journals. If
- you are not familiar, you may wonder what really \ital is \ital Hypertext?
- The concept of Hypertext was born in the 1950's, and quite simply,
- Hypertext is a way of presenting textual information with the added
- benefits a computer can provide; with the \bold Amiga, \bold these benefits
- aren't just limited to instant cross-referencing, but also include
- pictures, animations, music, and several other types of computer "media".
- \bold HT \bold is my idea of what Hypertext should be like for the Amiga.
- Although it is certainly not ideal, HT provides a very rich set of features
- for both Hypertext authors and Hypertext readers.
-
-
- Unfortunately to fully demonstrate all of the features of HT would
- require much more disk space than is possible. I've tried to highlight the
- more important features, and provide good documentation so that it is easy
- to utilize the additional features when you need them.
-
-
- In \ITALIC HT \ITALIC you can text link to all sorts of things. For
- example \BOLD sound\BOLD is a useful way to communicate. \ITALIC HT
- \ITALIC will let you link text to \Sound { -p400 sounds/StarTrek.SND }
- digitized sound.\endlink Using sound in this way is a simple method to
- improve the impact of your hypertext documents.
-
- Since everyone likes Amiga \BOLD Graphics, \BOLD we can't leave them
- out. To demonstrate, here is a link from the word "gorilla" to a famous
- Amiga picture of a gorilla. The \Show { pics/Gorilla } gorilla \endlink
- is an intriguing beast.
-
- \BOLD ARexx\BOLD is the scripting language of choice on the \ITALIC
- Amiga \ITALIC (and rightly so). To further that popularity, \ITALIC HT
- \ITALIC supports \BOLD ARexx \BOLD quite nicely. For example, a simple
- double click on an ARexx link could launch an ARexx macro directly from
- within the document you are reading. That same macro could then
- communicate back with HT to have other documents loaded as needed. Those
- of you with ARexx will find several ARexx macros in the Rexx drawer on the
- disk. You can explore there to find out more.
-
- Of course, there is also the \BOLD "hypertext" \BOLD part of HT! Links
- can be to other text in other files. For example, to get started on the
- real documentation to HT, you can \Link { Documentation/ht.doc } just click
- here.\endlink HT doesn't hold a proprietary format on your documents
- either, HT uses plain ASCII text files which everyone can produce easily.
-
- HT also allows links to arbitrary external programs. For example, if I
- wanted to let you run a text editor, I could do the following: \Run {
- c/ed } Click here to run the text editor on this disk. \endlink Simple
- eh?
-
- HT doesn't forget \BOLD music\BOLD either. The \ITALIC Amiga \ITALIC is
- capable of producing some very nice music, sooooooooo \ITALIC HT \ITALIC
- lets you use it. Unfortunately, there is no room on the disk for a good
- piece of Amiga music, but the capability is here.
-
- Amiga \BOLD Animations\BOLD aren't forgotten, but again, lack of disk
- space doesn't allow me to include an animation on disk which I could link
- to. HT is certainly capable however, and a double click of the mouse is
- all that would be needed to bring up any animation.
-
-
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- \bold \ital What next ? \ital \bold
-
- That concludes this \ital demo.\ital The \Link { Documentation/HT.doc
- } documentation \endlink on disk is the main example of what some of the
- possibilities with HT are. Work is progressing on an seperate \ital
- Examples Disk, \ital but that is not currently ready. HT provides a lot of
- functionality which, when used right, can be an impressive tool. Hopefully
- you will be able to appreciate some of that power when going through the
- hypertext documents on this disk.
-
- If I have piqued your interest with my program and you would like to
- contact me (for more information, programming projects, or just to say hi),
- my name is \bold Dominic Giampaolo, \bold and my address is :
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- \indent
- Dominic Giampaolo
- 3704 Eastwood Drive
- Baltimore, Maryland 21206
-
- I can also be reached by the following ways :
-
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- Electronic Mail:
- chopin!nick@uunet.uu.net
- giampal@auvm.bitnet
-
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- Regular telephone
- (202) 885-2717 (work)
- (202) 362-7132 (home)
-
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- If you have bug reports (hope not!), or other comments on HT, let me
- know. Have fun.
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