Subject: Hypertext Object?

From: David Sewell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 21:08:08 -0700

Has anyone made a good Generic Hypertext object?  I've started toying
with ideas for one that would allow linking not only between properties
on a single object but between objects as well.  

It doesn't seem like it should be too hard to implement a simple
system, but I don't want to waste time if it has been done well already.
--
David Sewell, English Dept, U of Rochester*  |  "Grammarians without any
  [email-masked]                 |  character at all lecture
  [email-masked]            |  us upon that of Homer."
(*thru 6/30/93; use AZ address after that)   |     --Diogenes the Cynic

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From: [email-masked] (Jay A. Carlson)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 02:41:02 -0700

> on a single object but between objects as well.  

You should probably stop by JaysHouseMOO (jh.ccs.neu.edu 1709) and
look at the jtext system.  For instance, the entire LambdaCore help
system has been converted to hypertext, and work proceeds apace (yeah,
yeah) on further integrating gopher into the document system.

> system, but I don't want to waste time if it has been done well already.

jtext is hardly simple, and it's still being developed.  On the other
hand, it's very good for what it does, considering---one intriguing
thing it does is allow output drivers for various forms of hypertext,
including HTML.  You can thus find the LambdaCore help system
available to the World Wide Web as hypertext at 
http://jh.ccs.neu.edu:7043/ :-)

[This should teach me not to post while overly wired on caffeine....]

Jay Carlson
[email-masked]

Flat text is just *never* what you want.   ---stephen p spackman

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From: Roger Crew <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 03:56:17 -0700

>   You can thus find the LambdaCore help system

And if you don't know how to get to World Wide Web or you want to see
LambdaMOO-specific topics, I've dumped out the current state of the 
LambdaMOO help system (figured it might be good to do this before the one
currently on parcftp gets to be an entire year out of date...)

Anyway, it's now sitting in

    parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/MOO/contrib/HelpSystem-02Jun93.txt

but with any luck, Pavel or somebody will read this soon and bump it
up a level :)

--
Roger Crew
Internet:   [email-masked]
LambdaMOO:  Rog

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 10:57:23 -0700

> Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 1993 03:56:17 -0700
> From:	Roger Crew <[email-masked]>
> 
> I've dumped out the current state of the LambdaMOO help system ...
> 

Done.  It's now in

	parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/MOO/HelpSystem-02Jun93.txt