What does PLINTH provide?

• create and manipulate design rationale nets to organise the research data and design discussions on which the document will be based, experimenting with different DR models as required;

• use DR-specific net traversal rules to assist the process of building up DR nets;

• create hypertext nets for the documents themselves;

• edit the text of nodes, include bitmapped diagrams, and create hypertext anchors between nodes, using TOME, the Text Object Markup Editor;

• associate types and slots with nodes and links;

• classify and index text fragments using domain specific schemes (e.g. CI/SfB for buildings);

• write sets of navigation rules for the various kinds of browsing, consultation and text retrieval of regulations;

• output documents in PostScript format;

• explore documents manually by clicking on nodes in a constrained graphical network view;

• browse and consult documents assisted by the intelligent navigation rules, directing and informing the navigator using the PLINTH Query Tool to enter commands, queries, and responses.