lin@CS.WMICH.EDU (Lite Lin) (03/26/91)
Hello, I have a question regarding HyperNeWS developed by the Turing Institute in UK. I just had a chance to look at it a few days before, so I'm completely new to it, and completely new to the NeWS environment (and well, completely new to just about everything :-). What I'm trying to do is, building a hypertext tool for viewing technical documents (and converting technical documents to hypertext form). Now my question is: is that possible in HyperNeWS to build "links" (i.e. highlighted, senstitive to mouse, moving around along with the text when you scroll, etc.) associated with a piece of text when it processes a postscript file (TeX -> dvi -> postscript)? If so, how? Please be aware that I do not even know yet how to import a piece of text in HyperNeWS (I can get around this by using their Hyperman manual browsing tool though). If it is possible, it'd indeed be very nice for processing documents containing math. formulas. I would be grateful if anyone would kindly respond, on the net or by email, at your earliest convenience. Thanks, Lite
rudolf@tummel.turing.ac.uk (Jim Rudolf) (03/28/91)
In article <9103260159.AA21733@cs.wmich.edu> lin@CS.WMICH.EDU (Lite Lin) writes: >What I'm trying to do is, >building a hypertext tool for viewing technical documents (and converting >technical documents to hypertext form). Now my question is: is that >possible in HyperNeWS to build "links" (i.e. highlighted, senstitive to >mouse, moving around along with the text when you scroll, etc.) associated >with a piece of text when it processes a postscript file >(TeX -> dvi -> postscript)? If so, how? Please be aware that I do not >even know yet how to import a piece of text in HyperNeWS (I can get around >this by using their Hyperman manual browsing tool though). What you ask is not very easy with an EditText object, because getting a sensitive area to scroll with the text is not part of it's current capabilities. Later you mention the Hyperman stack which has more capabilities. All the HyperNeWS documentation is developed in SGML, which allows us to convert it to different formats of our choosing. For instance, we convert it to LaTeX for the hardcopy version of the doc, and we also convert it to the online format that Hyperman uses. The concept of a reference is what gives the online format its hypertext capabilities. The parts of the doc that say "See Figure 3.1" or "See Section 7" are flagged by our SGML conversion tool. When the resulting file is read by the Hyperman client program, it highlights the references and makes them sensitive. Our current implementation does not allow for arbitrary bits of sensitive text, only SGML references. And not all of what I have described is distributed with HyperNeWS. Regards, -- Jim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Rudolf The Turing Institute rudolf@turing.ac.uk