[net.micro] Authoring systems for Chemistry - Pilot?, Microtext? etc.

charles1@garfield.UUCP (03/21/86)

        We are looking for a good  Authoring  System  to  produce
educational  software  for  use  with  our  first  year CHEMISTRY
courses.

        We have no experience with any system and we have not yet
purchased  micros to run the software.  At present we expect that
we will opt for IBM-PC compatible machines. The only systems that
we have looked at so far (in demo disk form) are

        IBM Pilot         and     MICROTEXT (Transdata)

        We want a system that can print chemical formulas proper-
ly.  It  must be able to print both subscript and superscript and
produce reasonable graphics.

        We would be interested to hear about the  experiences  of
others  (good or bad) in using an authoring system to produce in-
structional software for chemistry courses.



                              Charles Loader
               (Chemistry  Department - Memorial University)

charles1@garfield.UUCP