Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:18041 comp.org.usenix:1162 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!axecore!jonathan From: jonathan@axecore.UUCP (Jonathan Eunice) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Help with hyperCmedia Summary: hyperCmedia = a low cost hypertext toolkit Keywords: hypertext hyperCmedia Sun Message-ID: <268@axecore.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 89 14:39:18 GMT References: Reply-To: jonathan@axecore.UUCP (Jonathan Eunice) Distribution: na Organization: D.H. Brown Associates Lines: 30 hyperCmedia is a new toolkit for building hypertext and hypermedia programs in C on Sum-3 and Sun-4 workstations. It was demonstrated this at UNIX EXPO early this month, and should be generally available in January, 1990 from Paradise Software Rd 1 Box 467A Lambertville, NJ 08530 609-397-4142 It supports text, color and mono images, "off display" video (through attached videodisk), and sound (SPARCstation 1 only) in hypermedia programs. "On display" video with SunVideo "is being evaluted." Oddly enough, in these X-crazed days, hyperCmedia uses SunView only. Paradise hopes to have an X version released by 2Q90, along with a Sun 386i version. Aside from library calls, the toolkit includes an ms-like macro package that can be used to make hypertext documents/programs out of text files. To do this, you embed macro commands in a text file, much as you might use troff macros. (You do use troff, don't you?) Aside from formatting commands, these macros specify links to other documents and sections. Then you run the text through a tool that yields a an executable hypertext application. Paradise's demonstration of a hypertext UNIX manual is rather impressive, IMO. And, best of all, producing it was "almost" automatic. Of course, I've only seen this thing once, in demonstaration mode. I've never tried to use it, and most of the above details come from Paradise literature. Caveat lector.