dougcc@csv.viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller) (08/04/90)
In article <2831.26b566ec@cc.helsinki.fi>, harmo@cc.helsinki.fi (Timo Harmo, Fac. of Soc.Sci, U of Helsinki) writes: > I am using LaTeX to write a textbook that I would like to give out to > students also in hypertext-format on diskette. The book contains lot's of > cross-references, glossaries, index-markings etc. Is there some neat way to > convert those markings to hypertext-links for Guide, Hyper-Ties or some > similar program? Digital's DOCUMENT software is a structural markup system that does this kind of thing. As well as the usual typeset output (currently via TeX) it can also produce hypertext for the DECwindows Bookreader application. I'm not familiar with Guide et al., but if they have a markup langauge for text input, than perhaps you could write your source document in this language, and LaTeX it with a style option that maps the hypertext commands onto LaTeX commands with appropriate use of \let, \def and \catcode. Conversely, you could map LaTeX command onto hypertext commands if the macroing was powerful enough. On a more general note, let me try to stir up some controversy: Would any WYSIWYG apologist like to argue against structural markup for this application? Surely "WYSIWYG" is meaningless when "What You Get" can be more than one thing.