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Creating MS-DOS Hypertext CD-ROM?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore.Morris@UC.Edu)
Tue Aug 25 13:20:52 1992
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:09:07 CDT
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From: Theodore.Morris@UC.Edu
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
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(Cross posted to IR-L, LIBRES, MEDLIB-L, PACS-L, and alt.hypertext--
usual apologies if you see this more than once!)
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.
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!
