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We are electronic publishers, and a new venture we're planning for the near
future involves us distributing text to readers on a wide variety of machines.

We will be needing "reading" programs for the users to display this text.
We will want these reading programs to handle more than just ASCII -- a
limited rich text format is desired, with support for basic formatting,
italics, bold, underlining, headers and foreign characters.  Royalties will
be paid to software authors.

I haven't decided if we'll define our own format or use MIME or Microsoft
RTF or some other semi-standard.

In addition to reading programs for the various platforms, we'll also
want translation programs to translate into the existing rich text and
multimedia formats for use by existing word processors and display
software. 

All the above is likewise true for printing -- we'll want programs to
let people print their text on laser printers, good dot matrix etc., or
to translate it into troff, TeX or other formatting languages to broaden
the support.

The reading programs will do more than display.  It would be nice if they
featured "bookmark" faciliites and other nice reading features.

We're willing to pay royalties for these programs, or at least the ones
distributed to paying users.  We would have to work out other schemes for
translation programs run only on our machines, though those things are simpler
and we can probably write them ourselves, unless they already exist.
Pointers to existing software are welcome.

We want reading programs for at least DOS, the Mac, Windows and Unix/X,
though we'll probably generate our own for DOS and Unix/Curses.

We'll want printing programs to handle HP Laser printers, Postscript
and so on.

Contact me via E-mail for more details, and to learn what this exciting
project is about.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366