Creating Multimedia Documents: hypertext-processing

The concepts of hypertext and hypermedia have created a flurry of activity both inside and outside the world of computer science but much of the work undertaken so far has been concerned with creating hypertext interfaces that allow an author to create documents in a hypertext format, incorporating...

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Main Authors: Rahtz, S, Carr, L, Hall, W
Format: Conference item
Published: Intellect 1990
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description The concepts of hypertext and hypermedia have created a flurry of activity both inside and outside the world of computer science but much of the work undertaken so far has been concerned with creating hypertext interfaces that allow an author to create documents in a hypertext format, incorporating buttons and links in the ways permitted by the particular hypertext system. This work is of fundamental importance to our understanding of hypertext systems and the nature of the structures they allow us to create. It is also vital, however, that hypertext systems provide interfaces to existing text-processing systems so that documents created in this way can easily and perhaps automatically be incorporated into a hypertext format. At the same time, this would provide a hypertext interface for viewing, accessing and cross-referencing such documents. This paper describes a project being undertaken in Southampton to provide a hypertext interface for texts written using a generic markup language, such as LaTeX. The author creates an ordinary LaTeX document using normal facilities for cross-referencing, indexing etc., and this generic information is used to generate tags for a hypertext interface, which allows the document to be viewed section by section and provides buttons for accessing tables, diagrams, figures, references and cross-references to other documents.
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