The Introductory and Professional Editions

The IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser is available in two editions: a no-charge but licensed Introductory Edition and the commercially available Professional Edition. In this section we discuss the features of each.

• The Introductory Edition
• The Professional Edition

The Introductory Edition

The Introductory Edition is a viewer for a large subset of TeX, LaTeX, and AMS-LaTeX, as well as for MathML, the Mathematical Markup Language.

The particular features that techexplorer supports for each of these markup languages are described in the Compatibility section. The Creating documents section describes the basic document structure and the new features that techexplorer adds for electronic interactive publication of scientific and technical documents.

The basic features provided by the Introductory Edition include:

• A large subset of TeX and LaTeX.
  
  
  
• Full support for MathML 1.01, both Presentation Tags and Content Tags.

      <mrow>
        <mi>a</mi>
        <mo>=</mo>
        <mrow>
          <mfenced open="[" close="]">
          <mtable>
            <mtr>
               <mtd><mi>x</mi></mtd>
               <mtd><mi>y</mi></mtd>
            </mtr>
            <mtr>
               <mtd><mi>z</mi></mtd>
               <mtd><mi>w</mi></mtd>
            </mtr>
          </mtable>
          </mfenced>
        </mrow>
      </mrow>
        

• Hypertext links to any other documents on the web, including other techexplorer documents. These same links can be used to invoke JavaScript code in your web browser.
• Support for displaying GIF and JPEG images (the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh versions can display additional image formats).
• Links that
  • Play audio WAV files (on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh only, the Macintosh includes additional formats).
  • Play video AVI files (on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh only, the Macintosh includes additional formats).
  • Alternate between two text displays.
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  • Start applications on your computer.
  • Display dialog boxes to retrieve information from the reader.
• Author-defined pop-up menus containing arbitrary links.
  
  
  
• Hierarchical document navigational aids.
• Fully formatted pop-up windows for footnotes and author-defined "pop-up" links.
  
  
  
• Author-defined use of color and background images.

The Professional Edition

The Professional Edition includes all the features of the Introductory Edition and adds:

• An ActiveX Control version for improved integration with Internet Explorer and other applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• A scripting interface for developers who wish to programmatically control techexplorer using Java or JavaScript from Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.
• An add-in interface for authors who want to interactively send information to other applications.
• Support for the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 API via the scripting and add-in interface.
• Printing of full documents displayed by techexplorer.
• Searching, with all matches selected.
  
  
  
• A set of fonts with the complete set of symbols needed by basic TeX and LaTeX, plus the AMS Symbol set.
• Inline video.
• Autoplay audio.

IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser is a trademark of the IBM Corporation.
Send comments and questions to techexpl@us.ibm.com.
Visit the official techexplorer home page at http://www.software.ibm.com/techexplorer/.