Subject: Mac Hypercard Stack for (Chinese) Poems

From: Ken Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1991 09:06:08 +0200

I would like to release a Hypercard (1.2.5) stack for (chinese) poems
collection. Could anyone over the CCNET-L provide me a ftp site. The
stack takes about 30k (hqxed and sitted).

A brief description of this stack is inclused.

CHEN, Ken
Network Dept, ENST Paris (Paris Institute in Telecommunication)
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-- Test under:
 System (French) F-6.0.7
 System (Tranditional Chinese) T-6.0.4
 Hypercard 1.2.5

-- Description:

	A Hypercard stack permitting the storage and some elementary
	manipulation of poems (the target poems are chinese classical
    poems).

	Information gathered about each poet/poem can be saved and
    read individually, this makes possible to
    get a rather complete  poem set with  distributed input  charge.

-- Organization: 4 fonds
	- First card, Info
	- Index
	- Poets
	- Poems

-- First card:
	- Access to index functions (Poet, Poem, Quotation, Free Input)
  	- Get Info card (This card)
   	- Sort (by poem, poet)
    - Font allows the setting of a new font. For a chinese
	  system 6.0.4., the default is *Taipei* (All the 8 chars are
      needed to identify the font).

-- Index cards
	- By poet:
		- List updates the list of poets. If locked, a click on the
		  name of a poet gives you the corresponding poet's card
		- Lock button allows the edition functions (copy, etc)
		- Random button gives you a poet randomly. (Exactely like
  		  you open a book)

	- By poem:
		Similar fileds and buttons.
   		A poem is identified by its Style, its Name and its First line.

	- Quotation:
		Search by fameus quotations

	- Free input:
		As its name indicates

-- Poets cards

	- List displays /hides the list fld, when showed, this fld contains
  	  updated list of poems by this poet. When locked, a click on
      a line gives you the corresponding poem.

	- each button shows/hides the corresponding fld, there is no mutual
      relations between these button/fld, i.e. you may have two
      superposed flds, if two buttons are active.

	- In button allows the Import of a card
      from  an  ASCII file created by out

	- Out button allows to save (Export) all the fields of a card into
	  an  ASCII file.

	- The meaning of each filed is given in sample card

-- Poems cards

	- A click on Poet name leads to the corresponding poet's card if
  	  the latter exists, otherwise, a new poet card is created.

	- The meaning of each filed is given in sample card

	- In, Out are similar to those of Poets

-- Bugs:

	With chinese system, sometimes, a space is appended to the first
    line of a poem when making indexation, such that the good card
    can not be found. The original text is not modified.