Re: hyper-TeX and standards for client-side extensions

burchard@geom.umn.edu
Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:28:58 -0600

> I think a more realistic and useful thing would be to add a
> Hypertext Extension to Postscript (which, of course,
> TeX document can convert into).

That would indeed be useful (assuming the PostScript files were
compressed in transmission).

However, what I'm proposing is actually considerably simpler. I
think I might have caused some confusion by using the name
"hyper-TeX", when I'm actually only talking about shipping
fully-processed DVI files around. As I was explaining, the amount of
work that needs to be done beyond what already exists in Mosaic and
xdvi is quite limited; the main thing is to make sure it's
implemented in a future-thinking way.

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