Xantippe - The Information Structuring Workbench

Getting Organized
Xantippe provides support for all the stages of structuring information.

• The Information Acquisition Phase involves the capturing of bits and pieces of available information.
• The Information Analysis Phase involves discovering of the significance of the bits and pieces and their connection and relationship.
• The Information Exposition Phase involves the presentation of the structured information.

The Browser

• The Browser provides a graphical overview of the relationship between all the cards in the system.

The Cards

• The File Box Card is used to hold other cards in the system.
• The Text Card is used to hold textual information. Hypertext links can be made to other cards in the system. Bitmaps can be referenced for compilation into WinHelp.
• The Picture Card is used to hold graphical information. Hyperarea links can be made to other cards in the system.

HyperLink
Xantippe allows the author to easily create hyperlinks with a "select and click" method. Just select the information (text or graphics) to be linked and click on the card to link the information to. Xantippe will store the link and update the link as the hypertext document evolves during the authoring process.

Keywords
Xantippe allows the author to attach a list of keywords to each card. A keyword can be a word or a phrase that relates to the card and is used during the presentation phase to index the card.

Presentation

• WinHelp - Xantippe can create all the files needed by the Windows WinHelp Compiler (HPJ, H, RTF) to create a help file for the Windows environment. Xantippe will create the data files and run the compiler to allow the author testing and authoring from within one environment.
• OS/2 2.0 Help - Xantippe can create the IPF file needed by the OS/2 2.0 IPFC help compiler.
• HTML - Xantippe can create HTML file for use in the World Wide Web on the Internet.
• QuickHelp - For text-only DOS-based hypertext, Xantippe can create the files needed by the QuickHelp hypertext help compiler and run the compiler.
• Xantippe - Xantippe, itself, can be used as the presentation environment. Xantippe has a hyperlink mode which allows the author the ability to "read" the hypertext document.

• Internet
  • www.irismedia.com/new/xantippe/xantippe.zip

• Xantippe Release Notes
• Xantippe Help File