Original Posting :
> I heard this question but I haven't seen the summary regarding this.
> Is it possible to add local documents to AnswerBook database ??
>
> Or is there commercial or public domain software for -
> (a). On-line document preparation/retrieval using links (hypertext).
> (b). Indexing & table of contents generation/updation for (a).
SUMMARY :
Looks like FrameMaker will do the job (but expensive).
Have checked it out.
Thanks to the following people who responded.
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quelle@enteo.com (Reinhardt Quelle) :
> FrameMaker, from Frame Technology in San Jose (408.433.331, info@frame.com)
> provides a "viewer" program for documents created using their technical
> publishing package. Very nice stuff, and the viewer is available seperately.
> If you happen to be running Frame for your document production...
> Tables of contents, indexes, hypertext links, etc are all supported.
Richard Doty <rad@twig.com> :
> The main hassle is indexes and hypertext. The regular files are
> just plain old PostScript.
> There is a commercial product based on Sun's search engine called
> SearchIt!, see SunWorld, June 1993, pg. 54
> Appended is a letter describing some code which I have not looked at,
> but sounds like what you want.
> If you don't like either of those ideas, here is one more. Software
> tools from SunPro (and I assume other Sun unbundled software) come
> with AnswerBook add-ins, and tools to connect them. From this you
> may be able to scope out how it all works. That's essentially how
> I did it, though I left the code at a former job.
>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.x
> Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!eur.nl!pk
> From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg)
> Subject: Answerbook on X11 (announcement)
> Message-ID: <1993Jun16.113127.2517@cs.few.eur.nl>
> Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl
> Reply-To: pk@cs.few.eur.nl
> Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 11:31:27 GMT
>
> A preliminary version of an Answerbook navigator and viewer usable on
> non-xnews servers is available at `ftp.cs.few.eur.nl:~/pub/unix/ab.tar.Z'.
> You will need Sun's XView toolkit, a Ghostscript interpreter and an
> installed Answerbook.
> The interface between this navigator and Ghostscript makes uses the same
> communication channel as Ghostview. In fact, the Ghostview widget has
> been bashed until it looked like an XView class (it may not prove too
> hard to turn this whole program into a genuine Xt intrinsics application
> again).
> Some utilities are included to add your own books to an existing Answerbook
> hierarchy. These can be found in the `utils' directory after unpacking.
odesanya@tethys.ph.albany.edu has suggested to look for
InterLeaf 5.
cfulmer@pnc-pimc.com (Catherine Fulmer) :
> I don't know if you can or can't add documents to AnswerBook, but I do have
> a couple of factoids! One, if you get SunSolve, there is some documentation
> with the SunSolve CD that tells how to link AnswerBook and SunSolve which
> I know would only give you a part of the answer you need. But maybe you
> can get the file format from some tib.
tank@amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley) :
> Sun was working with a third party company to provide that service. It is NON
> trivial to do this stuff and you could contract the third party services to do
> your files, or purchase at a large investment price, the stuff to do it
> yourselves.
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