Help with hyperCmedia

[Jonathan Eunice]

hyperCmedia is a new toolkit for building hypertext and hypermedia
programs in C on Sum-3 and Sun-4 workstations.  It was demonstrated
this at UNIX EXPO early this month, and should be generally available
in January, 1990 from

Paradise Software
Rd 1 Box 467A
Lambertville, NJ  08530
609-397-4142

It supports text, color and mono images, "off display" video (through
attached videodisk), and sound (SPARCstation 1 only) in hypermedia
programs.  "On display" video with SunVideo "is being evaluted." Oddly
enough, in these X-crazed days, hyperCmedia uses SunView only.
Paradise hopes to have an X version released by 2Q90, along with a Sun 386i 
version.

Aside from library calls, the toolkit includes an ms-like macro package
that can be used to make hypertext documents/programs out of text
files.  To do this, you embed macro commands in a text file, much as
you might use troff macros.  (You do use troff, don't you?) Aside from
formatting commands, these macros specify links to other documents and
sections.  Then you run the text through a tool that yields a an
executable hypertext application.  Paradise's demonstration of a
hypertext UNIX manual is rather impressive, IMO.  And, best of all, 
producing it was "almost" automatic.

Of course, I've only seen this thing once, in demonstaration mode.
I've never tried to use it, and most of the above details come from
Paradise literature.  Caveat lector.