--- Forwarded Message from "Francois Crompton-Roberts" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: University of London
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:41:40 +0000
>Subject: Re: #5632 annotation software
>Reply-to: Francois C-R <[log in to unmask]>
>Priority: normal
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>

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> I am looking for existing software in PC platform that allows one to
> annotate written text with text definitions, pictures, videos, etc.
> If anyone is familiar with SmarTText by Thom Thibeault of Southern
> Illinois U., (http://www.siu.edu/~nmc/smarttext.html) that is what I
> have in mind. It creates hot-buttons with words for which the
> student can click on various icons to receive a video, pictorial, or
> textual annotation. It was authored with Hypercard, and at this time
> there is only a MAC version.  Any help at all would be greatly
> appreciated!

For what it's worth, I would have thought that you could do all this 
and more with DreamWeaver or another somesuch HTML editor. The 
advantage is that the result would be completely platform- 
independent--you could even put it on an intranet or, copyright 
permitting, the Web.


Francois C-R