paul@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Paul Stevenson) (03/30/89)
All this talk about MacWrite vs plain text vs ...
Why not use Hypercard?
Its free with every new mac.
It allows the combination of text and graphics
AND it lets you launch sample programs to demonstrate the code displayed in
the HyperCard fields.
Unless I've missed something HyperCard seems pretty much perfect for this sort
of guide.
Paul Stevenson,
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SPEARNET: paul@utas.edu.aujnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) (04/01/89)
In article <441@diemen.cc.utas.oz> paul@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Paul Stevenson) writes: > >All this talk about MacWrite vs plain text vs ... > >Why not use Hypercard? > Its free with every new mac. So is TeachText. And everyone has a text editor ... > It allows the combination of text and graphics So does TeachText, so does MacWrite, so does Word, etc. > AND it lets you launch sample programs to demonstrate the code displayed in > the HyperCard fields. Sure, if you've got 5 Meg of Ram ... > >Unless I've missed something HyperCard seems pretty much perfect for this sort >of guide. > Sorry to seem cynical, but HyperCard seems much less perfect to me than a simple printed reference manual. A reference manual doesn't eat up a precious 1/2 - 1 Meg of RAM, you can read it AND your application's source at the same time, you can read it without turning your Mac on, you can make copies of it without a printer, etc. ... Sure, a HyperCard version will probably exist, and it may very well be an effective way to present the Guide. But, frankly, I side with Isaac Asimov and all the other folks who think that the printed page will be hard to replace. -- v v sssss|| joseph hall || 201-1D Hampton Lee Court v v s s || jnh@ece-csc.ncsu.edu (Internet) || Cary, NC 27511 v sss || joseph@ece007.ncsu.edu (Try this one first) -----------|| Standard disclaimers and all that . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-Cheshire-@cup.portal.com (Gary Edward Learned) (04/05/89)
I was the original one that suggested a Hypercard format, and offered to produce it. I meant it only as an additional method however, to supplement, not replace a bound version. Ideally, the Word with index and outline style table of contents seems like the best format.