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- From: thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de (Thomas Driemeyer)
- Subject: Re: Insight....adding your own documents
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.215534.7994@bitrot.in-berlin.de>
- Keywords: InSight SGML online documentation
- Organization: Thomas Driemeyer, Berlin
- References: <1993Jan4.200343.20281@texhrc.uucp> <ul4ckqk@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:55:34 GMT
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- Insight is a wonderful concept, that's the way documentation ought to
- be presented. Who needs paper anyway...
-
- The format of the SGML documents should be published and accessible
- though, so that everyone can add books without having to use external
- service bureaus. If the format is closed, Insight might suffer the same
- fate as the license server.
-
- The license server was also an interesting idea, but it was sold in a
- way that makes it unusable for anyone except SGI. The license server
- developer's tools are $10k on my list, and I am not aware of a single
- third-party software that uses it (undoubtedly there are some (Frame?),
- but it certainly hasn't become the universally accepted way of selling
- software). In fact, the company I work for has looked at it, shaken its
- collective head, and written a proprietary license server.
-
- Wouldn't it be great if everything - third-party software manuals, TeX
- manuals, Webster's (I can dream, can I?), even /usr/man, and of course
- the jargon file :-) - would be available as InSight books? Let's hope
- legal obstacles won't prevent that.
-
- BTW, is there a way to show the pictures directly in the document, the
- way NeXT's digital librarian does it, rather than to hide them in an
- icon? Optionally, maybe?
-
- Thomas
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