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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>
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- 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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