Since I don't actually have to code anything - I'll continue to put my
two cents in ;).
The two most used comment & review workflows in use today are MSWord
and Acrobat/PDF. I recommend that you look at BOTH for ideas and
concepts (though you have indeed reflected some already in the wiki).
In the case of Acrobat, look at the Comments pane for some good ideas
as well as the "Summarize Comments" feature.
A couple of things that strike me offhand.
* You need at least 4 types of "annotations" - popup note (a
non-anchored/floating note), hilite ("yellow" hilite marker),
strikeout and insertion. These are the most common types of
operations performed. You could also do a specific "replacement", but
that can be simulated just fine with a combination of strikeout +
insertion.
* Each annotation type MUST allow for associated descriptive text to
explain why the operation was performed or the text in question (for
popups & insertions).
* I see an annotation similar to a hyperlink, so perhaps the
same/simiar mechanism used in the PieceTable for defining links should
be used?
Leonard
On 6/3/07, Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> HI Ernesto,
> I've looked through what you have added to the wiki page for
> annotations.
>
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/AbiAnnotations
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> I think we really need basic annotations to be available for AbiWord 2.6
> because it nicely complements our big new feature, AbiCollab. A prime
> use case for AbiCollab will be schools and Universities and particularly
> Write OLPC.
>
> To be useful, teachers will need to be able to add comments to work
> submitted by students so I think a minimum first goal for the project
> will be:
>
> 1. Allow selected regions of the text to have a comment associated with
> them.
> 2. Define a standard way to display that a region has a comment
> associated with it.
> 3. Make displaying the comment user-definable and potentially printable.
>
> Possibilities for displaying a comment are:
>
> 1. Box in the margin with the comment.
> 2. A popup that appears during a mouse-over.
> 3. make the text appear inline with a defined format. This should be
> hidable.
>
> Regarding implementation, I agree that annotations should be represented
> in the piecetable in a way similar to footnotes. However we will need
> to combine this with the mechanism we use for hyperlinks to show which
> region of the text is associated with a comment.
>
> If we use the footnote mechanism to hold the comment in the piecteable,
> the easiest method to display the comment is either the popup box or a
> comment in the margin. Putting comments in the margin is also a straight
> forward way to allow printing.If we pursue this path we will have to
> expand the size of the left margin in OLPC Write.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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