MUCH ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ENVIRONMENT - PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

Most electronic publishing systems concentrate on formatting. However, an electronic publishing environment should: (1) support the whole li fe cycle of publication; (2) be a highly integrated environment; (3) h ave a hypermedia publishing capability; and (4) be easily extended to deal with new media and support new publishing activities. An electron ic publishing environment called MUCH (Many Using and Creating Hyperme dia) has been developed that supports collaborative authoring, reuse, formating and printing, management, hypermedia publishing and delivery , and interchange. MUCH is based on public domain tools, such as Andre w, and has been used in the authoring of many lengthy documents.