Scott Morrison did the original work on hypertex. He sent an image from his notebook showing the original design notes. The page contains references to Clifton (Williamson), Barry (Trager), Steven (Watt), (Steve) Gortler and Stephen Buchwold.
The early Scratchpad graphics work was done in X10 and there was a steep learning curve for X11. As is clear from the notes, Scott was asked to figure out a lot of low level details like Font handling (a pain in X11) as well as high level details like the active area representation. Given that this was all required before the idea of web browsers arrived on the scene, Scott did some incredible design work. Hypertex allows embedded graphics, which become "live" when clicked. It allows "tear off pages" (e.g. open-new-window in firefox). It allows search activities. It has adjustable fonts. It could be run standalone or in connection with Axiom. It has a page format that was very close to latex in syntax and semantics (much better than html). It allowed user defined page tags (ala XML). It ran as a separate, parallel process. Some days you have to be impressed. Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
