DynaText is the world's leading standards-based electronic book publishing system. DynaText accepts any valid SGML document and automatically builds a dynamic, platform-independent electronic book that can include hyperlinks, tables, equations, graphics, animation, audio and video. Users can write notes, create cross-references, perform sophisticated searches, print selectively, and cut-and-paste content into other applications.
DynaText end-users view a dynamic table of contents (TOC) -- built automatically from the structures in the source SGML documents -- that enables them to easily locate and navigate to a desired piece of information. Full-text searches can be performed for individual or collections (libraries) of DynaText books. The TOC instantly indicates the number of search occurrences and auto-positions the document view at the first search occurrence. DynaText also dynamically wraps information to fit any window size making horizontal scrolling is unnecessary.
Components
Indexer: Compiles electronic books directly from arbitrary SGML data. InStEd(tm) (Interactive Stylesheet Editor): Defines the electronic book's packaging-specific formatting and behavioral properties. Browser: GUI for viewing and navigating electronic book(s). Systems Integrator Toolkit (SIT): Enables publishers or resellers to add value and/or customize the Browser to meet specific needs.
Platforms
DynaText is available across all key computing platforms (Unix/X(R), Microsoft(tm) Windows(tm), and Apple Macintosh(R)), supporting both network-based and stand-alone delivery environments. All versions are functionally equivalent, visually consistent, and 100% data compatible across platforms.
Differentiators
Supports arbitrary SGML directly. Fully exploits the flexibility and power of SGML, ISO standard 8879 for electronic publishing.
Completely open. SIT supports external application integration and GUI customization enabling DynaText to be easily adapted to any SGML application and integrated with other software programs by publishers, resellers or systems integrators.
Multi-Platform. MS Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh versions.
Supports all relevant system standards. SGML, X Windows, UNIX, Motif, etc. compliance enables a highly portable, extensible system. DynaText is platform- and publishing system-independent.
Language-independent. The Browser supports all European, Cyrillic and Asian languages from a single, multi-byte core executable.
Media-independent. The Browser runs on diskette, CD-ROM, LAN, WAN, Client/Server, and stand-alone delivery environments.
Industrial strength. DynaText handles very large volumes of data, is extremely responsive (even for large documents), and requires minimal end-user training.
