This probably isn't a very good answer, but if I was doing a project like that I would probably mark up the 'chrono-textual' data in XML and write some XSLT stylesheets to transform it to whatever presentation format I needed.
I'll get my coat....
Richard
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:52:52 +0100, "Chris Green" chris@areti.co.uk said:
I'm looking for an application which will allow me to write a sort of history. It's a bit difficult to describe but I'll do my best.
What I want is an application which will provide a timeline with divisions of days, months and years as required with the ability to write quite large chunks of text by the timeline. Then, if possible, I'd like to be able to have hyperlinks in the text that would lead out to other descriptions etc. or even to other parts of the timeline.
I want the timeline to be flexible so that in one place a day might take up as much space as a year does elsewhere on the line, I don't want a calendar type fixed layout.
Basically it's a set of interactive web pages with the addition of the timeline 'in the middle'.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for what I could use? It doesn't have to be web based by the way but I suspect that a web application is most likely.
-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
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