Re: Feedback on Annotations draft.

Also, it might be a good idea to make sure you don't re-invent the wheel
by including revisions support in Annotations: Play around with the
existing revisions support and see how it can be worked with to further
your project.

Ryan

Martin Sevior 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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