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@Article{Hershey:1987:G,
author = "William Hershey",
title = "Guide",
journal = j-BYTE,
volume = "12",
number = "10",
pages = "244--246",
month = oct,
year = "1987",
CODEN = "BYTEDJ",
ISSN = "0360-5280",
bibsource = "/usr/local/src/bib/bibliography/Ai/hypertext.bib",
note = "Software Review",
abstract = "For the Macintosh at \$134.95 ``In 1965, Ted Nelson
proposed hypertext, a way to link interrelated
information so computer users could jump from topic to
topic, find related subject areas, and generally
extract only what they needed from large quantities of
information. \ldots{}'' While limited to text and
graphics, Guide lets you create hypertext-like
documents. \ldots{} The main Guide program lets you
create Guide documents (called Guidelines), read them
on the screen, save them as MacWrite documents, and (if
you insist) print them. \ldots{} ``A Guideline can be a
mixture of text and graphics. \ldots{} But certain
words, phrases, or graphic objects can be `buttons'
that provide links to hidden text and graphics. Text
buttons may appear in any style, but they typically
have distinctive attributes, like boldface or italics,
to distinguish them from the rest of the text.''
``Clicking on [a replacement] button reveals hidden
replacement text or graphics that are inserted after
the button or displayed on top of it; it's similar to
expanding a heading in an outline processor to reveal
more details.'' When you click [a note button], a
pop-up text/graphic definition of the item appears in a
window \ldots{}. It remains on the screen as long as
you hold down the mouse button. ``[A reference button]
opens up a new window to show a different Guideline
document (at a specific reference point within that
document) or branches to a different part of the
Guideline containing the reference button.'' You can
make any graphics object into a button, which means
that you can link various parts of a pixture to textual
descriptions of the parts or to exploded pictures that
show more detail. \ldots{} ``The Guide Envelope system,
available separately for \$199.95, lets you convert
Guidelines to stand-alone applications, called
Envelopes, which you can copy and distribute to as many
people as you want. \ldots{}'' The third read-only
package is called Guidance, a \$2500 [\$500 without
distribution license] package designed to replace
printed documentation manuals with interactive,
on-line, hypertext documentation. \ldots{} Guidance is
based on Guidelines, which developers can incorporate
into applications as desk accessories with
context-sensitivity.",
keywords = "OWL International Macintosh Guide 1.0 Ted Nelson
Hypertext Guidelines Envelopes Guidance",
}