>At 10:42 PM -0800 11/15/2001, Kee Nethery wrote: >>Extra suggestion, contact the publishers of the HyperTalk book and >>see if you can license the content to be modified for Transcript. >>They get use of an old property and you get the majority of your book >>already written. Plus, you might get them to publish it. > >No need - the book's rights has long since reverted. (Unfortunately, an >equivalent Transcript book would be three to four times as long - apart >from the fact that large sections of the "Reference" section would need to >be rewritten, as some aspects such as message path handling aren't quite >the same in Transcript as they are in HyperTalk.) It's not a bad idea at >first glance, but I'd have to rewrite most of the book, plus write the >equivalent of two more books in addition.
That's why I was suggesting that you build a web site to manage the update process. Let the users do most of the updating. Make it a group effort with you as referee. Kee
