[This contains all the "DOS based SGML" messages, concatenated.] Number: 028 Newsgroups: alt.etext From: metatron!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt) Subject: DOS based SGML Shareware? Message-ID: <3DPiZB5w165w@metatron.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 02:59:38 CST Organization: Metatron Press / Human Systems Performance Group, Austin, TX Lines: 15 I'm putting together a book, and would like to release it as hypertext shareware. (I also plan to do a flat text release of it, though it won't be as much fun :-]). Are there any DOS based hypertext tools that have a free or shareware reader (that I could bundle with the hypertext) and that use SGML coding? I figure going with SGML right from the start (even though I haven't used it before) makes sense in terms of portability and all that. Ideas? Clues? -- "I awoke from the same dream realizing that I had subconsciously gained kowledge of a deductive technique involving mind-body coordination operating hand in hand with the deepest level of intuition." -- Dale Cooper Number: 032 Newsgroups: alt.etext From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) Subject: Re: DOS based SGML Shareware? Message-ID: Organization: Ministry of Information, William's Marsh Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 15:59:49 GMT Lines: 25 metatron!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt) writes: >I'm putting together a book, and would like to release it as hypertext >shareware. (I also plan to do a flat text release of it, though it won't be as >much fun :-]). > >Are there any DOS based hypertext tools that have a free or shareware reader >(that I could bundle with the hypertext) and that use SGML coding? I figure >going with SGML right from the start (even though I haven't used it before) >makes sense in terms of portability and all that. There is a FAQ file and an accompanying bibliography (including software) for SGML which is posted at exceedingly rare intervals to the Usenet newsgroup comp.text.sgml. The FAQ, bibliography and a bunch of freely available SGML software are available for anonymous ftp at ftp.ifi.uio.no in the "SGML" directory. Unfortunately the current version of the FAQ has "expired" and been withdrawn from the ftp archive; a new release was supposed to come out in mid-February. You could send mail to SGML.request@ifi.uio.no and ask where the new FAQ is. Meanwhile, the bibliography will probably have the info you want if you already are clear on the concept of SGML. -- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu -- Unix Systems Programmer, Office of Networking and Computing Systems -- Rice University, POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 / Mudd 208 / 713-285-5327 -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.