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From: science@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.text
Subject: Re: Designing Online Documents
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Date: 17 Nov 90 14:18:41 GMT
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I would suggest checking out GNU Emacs's ``Info'' and ``Texinfo''
systems, which allow one to build and edit technical manuals (e.g.,
the GNU Emacs manual and other software documentation), and to browse
it online in a rather neat and definitely (to my mind) hypertextual
fashion.  Take the online short course on Info to learn quickly how to
use it; from within Emacs, type C-h i (control-H for `help' followed
by `i' for Info) to get to Info.  If you're not into Emacs, find
somebody who has it up and running (it doesn't fit on a PC or Mac, but
is often seen on Suns, VAXen, etc.) and get them to do a demo.

BTW, ``Infosim'' and ``Para'' modes of Emacs go beyond the
Info/Texinfo framework and make it easier to build online browsable
cross-linked documents, and optionally print out a linear path through
them ... subscribe to the Para mailing list by sending a request to
``para-request@cs.cmu.edu'' for more details....  ^z