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- From: tmcg@blueline.EBay.Sun.COM (Tom McGinn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
- Subject: Authoring on a PC
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- Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:47:09 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- I apologize is this a FAQ, I don't usually read these net groups...
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- My father has produced a terrific text that when printed, produces
- a "scrambled text". This is a book that allows the reader to make
- decisions while reading the text and "branch" to other pages within
- the book.
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- He worked long and hard on it, as the compilation of the page numbers,
- the text and the brancing were done manually. Clearly this document
- cries out for some type of Hypertext program.
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- What I'm looking for is advice, suggestions, pointers, anything, that
- I can use to start looking into converting the printed text to a
- computer based model. The text is entirely in WordPerfect, and ideally
- the desired program would take the text as is and allow him to author
- the links. Further, if the program were also capable of including
- images, audio, and digital video (ala QuickTime) this would be a big
- plus.
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- Of course other ideal attributes would be that the runtime produced
- could be run across a wide variety of PC platforms, from an XT up
- to a 486 (maybe even a Mac?). I aware of ToolBook, but from my limited
- experience, using it would be a lot of work based upon the nature of
- the program. Are there others that concentrate on hypertext?
-
- Please reply directly to me as I don't get a chance to peruse these
- net groups often.
-
- I appreciate any of your collective wisdom!
-
- Tom McGinn
- Course Developer
- Sun Microsystems
-