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- Subject: Create MS-DOS Hypertext CD-ROM?
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- (Cross posted to IR-L, LIBRES, MEDLIB-L, PACS-L, and alt.hypertext as
- well--usual apologies if you see this more than once!)
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- Need help re: currently popular/respected MS-DOS based hypertext
- development products.
-
- 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.
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- 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, and a way to get to each. For example, when the text
- says, "in Figure 12 you can see the results of..." you have a command,
- button, or function-key to press which will "pop up" or otherwise
- activate "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 suspect I'll be more limited by the
- products which can show this and text, than by how I can deliver the
- Figures.
-
- 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.
-
- 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, from a market standpoint as
- well as for complexity's sake, but that's by no means 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?
-
- Thanks!
-
- Theodore Allan (Ted) Morris, University of Cincinnati, Medical Center
- Information and Communications, Information Retrieval and Development,
- 231 Bethesda Ave., ML#574, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
- 513-558-0177V, 558-0758F, MORRISTA@UC.EDU, MORRIS@UCUNIX.SAN.UC.EDU,
- NTS WB8VNV. Call me up and I'll talk data to ya!
-