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Subject: Re: Online Help
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 09:56:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
In-Reply-To: <memo.674927@cix.compulink.co.uk> from "Joe Connor" at Jul 17, 94 08:32:00 am
Message-Id: <9407181002.ar10314@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
Precedence: bulk
What you wrote:
> We seem to be going round in circles here!
> If you donate ANY amount for your own use and Holger will be delighted!
> Anyone can include it for FREE with their software BUT
> *I'm* suggesting (like Andre) that developers might like to give more than
> the minimum donation since if you've gone to the trouble of creating a
> hypertext you're certainly making considerable use of it. *I* would be
> dissappointed to see developers taking the attitude that they're doing
> their bit by supporting ST-Guide in the first place it's a valid POV but
> not mine!
> The individual end users can make their own minds up.
Does this mean I should pay a fee to the inventors of ASCII, since I'm
using their format for this message?
By creating an ST-Guide hypertext file, you're creating a document that
can _only_ be viewed with ST-Guide, right? So the user will need ST-Guide
to view it. So the user will have to send the author some money if they
use it often.
By adopting ST-Guide as the standard for GEM context-sensitive help (I'd
sure like to see sound support added; pity the ST is too wimpy to handle
most forms of animation reasonably), we're opening up a large new "market"
for ST-Guide. All of *our* users together is going to be a much larger
number of people than ST-Guide would attract by itself.
Since the author wants to encourage this distribution (I would too!) by
allowing us to include it with our software (and the user can send him
some money if they use it), I'm in favour of supporting ST-Guide as our
standard. I'd like to see lots of documentation (in English, since I
don't speak German, unfortunately) on the format, to make it easier to
write converters (ex, TeXinfo -> ST-Guide, HTML -> ST-Guide).
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