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- When we looked at dynatext, about a year ago, it was a system which
- built (like compiled) a bunch of already written SGML into a "book"
- which ould be scanned on-line. The book was kept in some dynatxtext-special
- form, with indexes etc. It did not parse SGML on the fly as W3 does.
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- There is no client-server protcol to dynatext, so you ahve to have the
- "book" mounted by NFS say where you want to read it.
-
- A strange thing was that if you made some incremental
- change to the underlying SGML then you had to remake the
- whole book. The licencing was by the number of books
- you made, so every time you reran "make book" or whatever it
- was called, you had you rlicense edcremented by one.
-
- I think there is a bit of a review about in on the web... try
- www http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Products/DynaText/Overview.html
- which Ifound by a link from
- http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Products/Overview.html
-
- Dynatext may have improved since we tried it. The mail
- addreses of peopl einvolved are linked to those documents.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Tim BL
- PS: It was more like 2 years ago.
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