Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-09-01 Thread Derek Stewart
Dilwyn, I had a look back at some issues of Quanta: Volume 7 Issue 9 October 1990 Page 28 HYPERTEXT ON THE QL by Mark Knight Volume 8 Issue 9 October 1991 Page 21 HYPERTEXT, GOLD CARD MATHS by Mark Knight Looks like Mark was writing some Hypertext suite of programs, but abandoned the

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-27 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Dilwyn, a poke in a different direction , then: In the late eighties/early nineties, when C68 entered stage, there were attempts to port the TeX/LaTex typesetting system from Minix to QDOS. The term hypertext would certainly apply to this (but in a different sense), and it has references to

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-27 Thread Arnould
I remember very well that there was an article somewhere in the QL literature (QL World? Quanta? Quasar?) about someone developing such a software eventually for sale later. It was well before internet hypertext and I was fascinated by the principle. But I think that this software never became

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-27 Thread Ralf Reköndt
From: Dilwyn Jones I now remember correponding briefly with Ralf Rekoendt about the TeX system back then. Yes, I still have the disks from Tony Tebby with TeX and MetaFont sources in C. He once wanted to convert that for SMSQ (a very long time ago he also wanted to write a C2SB

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-27 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I now remember correponding briefly with Ralf Rekoendt about the TeX system back then. Yes, I still have the disks from Tony Tebby with TeX and MetaFont sources in C. He once wanted to convert that for SMSQ (a very long time ago he also wanted to write a C2SB converternever

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-26 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Dilwyn Jones schrieb: Neither were around in the mid-1980s AFAIK. And my viewer had nothing to do with C (it was compiled basic). The other HTML browsers and readers I can remember are: Q-Mosaic - on my website (internet utilities page) Progs html reader, part of the Prowess system

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dilwyn, Can anyone help with this query I've just received? Never heard of it - as far as I can remember - on the QL. That's not to say that it wasn't a QL program though! Sorry. Google maybe? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Google maybe? Well I tried looking for hypertext +ql or Hypertext +qdos or Hypertext +sinclair - nothing of relevance I'm afraid. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-25 Thread P Witte
Dont know if it ever materialised for the QL. There was a program for the Atari ST called Hypertext. Perhaps your correspondent was thinking of that? Per Dilwyn Jones wrote: Can anyone help with this query I've just received? Dilwyn Jones I'm trying to locate information about software I

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-25 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Dilwyn Jones schrieb: Can anyone help with this query I've just received? Dilwyn Jones I'm trying to locate information about software I used on a QL in the mid-80s. As far as I remember it was called something 'Hypertext'. It offered hypertext jumps in documents and ran via a C compiler.

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-25 Thread Dilwyn Jones
the closest thing to hypertext on the QL (except Lynx, the text mode web browser) I can recall is your very own Viewer program - But you checked that already, I suppose - It at least has links and embedded graphics.. BR Tobias Neither were around in the mid-1980s AFAIK. And my viewer had

[Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-24 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Can anyone help with this query I've just received? Dilwyn Jones I'm trying to locate information about software I used on a QL in the mid-80s. As far as I remember it was called something 'Hypertext'. It offered hypertext jumps in documents and ran via a C compiler. I'd welcome any