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- From: morris@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Ted Morris)
- Subject: Create MS-DOS CD-ROM hypertext product?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.193720.25720@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 19:37:20 GMT
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- Need help re: currently popular/respected MS-DOS based hypertext
- development products.
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- We are trying to work up a project plan in a short "window of
- opportunity" for funding--something other University folks can
- appreciate, I'm sure--for what will turn out to be a sort of a hypertext
- book on CD-ROM, if we're successful. A professor here is already a
- successful print publisher, but wants to take the text of his last work
- and update it in electronic form this time rather than just in print
- form. This means the text, figures, and tables. It is a reference
- work, so the "chapters" follow a regular format. I can see the
- opportunity to cross "data base" and "hypertext/linking" lines here,
- since the text content organization is so regular.
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- I'm thinking about things like when the text says "in Figure 12 you can
- see the results of..." and having a command, button, or function-key to
- press which will "pop up" or otherwise switch to active "Figure 12".
- I'm not defining whether "Figure 12" will be a scanned image or redrawn
- artwork, or whether it will be .PIC, .PCX, .TIF, .EPS, or whatever--I'll
- be more limited by the products which can show this and text, I suspect,
- than by how I can deliver the Figures.
-
- I've been hanging around the edges since Hypertext '89 in Pittsburgh,
- but this will be my first real -funded- project (we hope!). Otherwise,
- I haven't worked much with anything but HyperCard (and a -little- look
- at Owl Guide). This project is defined as being MS-DOS based. I'm
- inclined to try to stay away from Windows, but that's not a given.
-
- So, what are currently popular MS-DOS based products that would lend
- themselves to creation of an MS-DOS CD-ROM like this? Will something
- like MaxThink be able to handle the text links (like to tables or other
- articles which are related) and the "figures"? Will I have to use
- Windows-based products, or are there non-Windows products which can fill
- the bill?
-
- Theodore Allan (Ted) Morris, University of Cincinnati Medical Center,
- 513-558-0177V, 558-0758F, MORRIS@UCUNIX.SAN.UC.EDU, MORRISTA@UC.EDU,
- NTS WB8VNV. Call me up and I'll talk data to ya!
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