enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) (05/25/91)
Yang Meng Tan writes: | | However, there is work on an ANSI standard for hypertext. The | official title of this effort is "Information Technology - | Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)" ISO/IEC CD | 10744. The balloting is currently under way, so I don't expect any | official soon. If anybody knows of preliminary documents, that are | available please let me know. I think it's time to make the announcement that Steven Newcomb and I have been sort of planning for a while. Below is the announcement for the first SIGhyper document, preceded by the README file accompanying it at the ftp library. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGhyper/README 1991-04-29 These documents are from the SGML Users' Group's (SGML-UG) Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia (SIGhyper). SIGhyper documents and general information are available via anonymous FTP from ftp.ifi.uio.no [129.240.88.1] in the directory SIGhyper All new documents will be announced in the USENET group comp.text.sgml as they become available. If (and only if) you can't use FTP service, you may request the document via the Internet from <SIGhyper-request@ifi.uio.no>. (Note: Each such request must be fulfilled manually.) If SIGhyper members wish to be personally updated on new documents available from the FTP archive, they should send a note to that effect to the same address. To join SIGhyper, to obtain printed copies of SIGhyper documents and other information about SIGhyper, contact Liam R. E. Quin, Secretary, SIGhyper, c/o SoftQuad Inc., 720 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [voice: 416 963 8337; fax: 416 963 9575; internet: <lee@sq.com>]. The current (1991) chairman of SIGhyper is Steven R. Newcomb, c/o TechnoTeacher, Inc., 1810 High Road, Tallahassee, FL 32303-4408 USA [voice: 904 422 3574; fax: 904 386 2562; internet: <srn@cmr.fsu.edu>]. Erik Naggum <SIGhyper-request@ifi.uio.no> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A new SIGhyper document is now available in the online library at FTP.IFI.UIO.NO. SIGhyper doc # 1991-1 Title: Information about HyTime Author: Charles F. Goldfarb Mailbox: gml@almaden.ibm.com Lines: 139 Characters: 6,258 pathname: SIGhyper/1991-001 The Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime) is an International Standard currently being balloted as a Committee Draft (ISO/IEC CD 10744). The ballot closes July 31. A Draft International Standard will then be published and balloted, with publication of the approved standard expected next year. This document is from the SGML Users' Group's (SGML-UG) Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia (SIGhyper). SIGhyper documents and general information are available via anonymous FTP from FTP.IFI.UIO.NO in the directory SIGhyper. (Login via FTP with username "anonymous" and user your network mail address (or "guest") as password.) All new documents will be announced in the USENET group comp.text.sgml as they become available. If (and only if) you can't use FTP service, you may request the document via Internet mail from <SIGhyper-request@ifi.uio.no>. (Note: Each such request must be fulfilled manually.) If SIGhyper members wish to be personally updated on new documents available from the FTP archive, they should send a note to that effect to the same address. To join SIGhyper, to obtain printed copies of SIGhyper documents and other information about SIGhyper, contact Liam R. E. Quin, Secretary, SIGhyper, c/o SoftQuad Inc., 720 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [voice: 416 963 8337; fax: 416 963 9575; internet: <lee@sq.com>]. The current (1991) chairman of SIGhyper is Steven R. Newcomb, c/o TechnoTeacher, Inc., 1810 High Road, Tallahassee, FL 32303-4408 USA [voice: 904 422 3574; fax: 904 386 2562; internet: <srn@cmr.fsu.edu>]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope this can be of some value. Feel free to contact me, Lee or Steven if you have any questions. </Erik> [FTP-archivist for SIGhyper] -- Erik Naggum Professional Programmer +47-2-836-863 Naggum Software Electronic Text <ERIK@NAGGUM.NO> 0118 OSLO, NORWAY Computer Communications <enag@ifi.uio.no>